KYIV, March 1 – Parliament has passed presidential bill No. 7440 on the High Anti-Corruption Court in first reading with 282 lawmakers voting in favor on Thursday.

The bill was supported at first reading by 101 MPs from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction, 67 from the People's Front, two from the Opposition Bloc (three abstained, the majority of the faction did not vote), 22 from the Samopomich faction, 14 from the Oleh Liashko Radical Party, 19 from the Batkivschyna faction, eight and 15 from the People's Will and Vidrodzhennia groups, respectively.