Yesterday BYuT, NSNU, and the Socialists had decided on one possible seating arrangement, but this morning the Socialists wanted to change it, for reasons that provide some insight into the workings of the VR.
The Socialists were to be seated in a narrow wedge of seats in twos and threes, behind one another, but this would have made it more difficult for one of their deputies [a so-called 'piano-player] to vote, by pressing a panel button in front of each seat, on behalf of other, absent deputies, in the short period of time allotted for voting. This kind of officially impermissible behaviour has frequenly taken place in the past.
The Socialists will now sit in a group either side of the central aisle, giving them strategic 'control' of this all-important passageway. The workings of the VR are often disrupted by deputies storming and blocking the central dais. The Socialist deputies alone should now be able to block the central aisle and make staging of such charges and blocking by disgruntled deputies more difficult.
PR will dominate the left hand side of the VR, giving them easy access, via the nearest exit to an empty lobby, where they can quickly plot 'off-the-cuff' strategy without journalists, who normally linger in the opposite lobby, being present.
But the best seats, to the right of the speaker, are retained by NSNU - this is an area most favoured by TV and mass media cameras. The government ministers' lobby is nearby, and so this location is a parliamentary action 'hot-spot'.
From Ukrainska Pravda]
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