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15. A group of deputies have introduced an alternative draft law (no. 9081-1)9 which goes further than draft law no. 9081, by extending the scope of the ineligibility to presidential elections, with such restrictions applying to the same above-mentioned elected officials as well as to the members of a parliamentary faction formed by the parties concerned, who have been in office “at the time of the beginning of the temporary occupation of certain territories of Ukraine by the Russian Federation [2014]10 and until the full restoration of Ukraine’s state sovereignty”.11 The draft law no. 9081-1 also prohibits the aforementioned elected officials to be appointed as members of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine or to enter the civil service for positions of category “A”12.