Another candidate refused to go to the polls from Zelensky
The director of the Department of Youth and Sports of the Kyiv City State Administration, the famous fencer Vadim Gutsayt, who was listed at number 81 on the party list of the Servant of the People party, also announced his refusal to run for the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He wrote about this on social networks.
“I am not going to the parliamentary elections. I am grateful to President Vladimir Zelensky, the head of the Servant of the People party Dmitry Razumkov and the entire team as a whole for their trust. I am proud and grateful that you appreciated my work and that you considered me worthy to be part of this strong team. But I am a man of action, I am not a politician. I never was. I don’t know how to shout loudly from the podium, I know how to work. I have many projects under my belt that are important for the city, important for the country, and important for the sports industry. You know, athletes, like military men, are never former,” Gutzeit wrote on Facebook.
“Unfortunately, parliament, not only Ukrainian, but any other, is politics, squabbles, conversations. I'm used to working differently. What’s wrong – I’m just used to working. If I take on a project, I see it through to the end. Perhaps, of course, not modestly, but I’m sure my entire sports career speaks to this,” Gutzeit emphasized.
He is confident that he will bring more benefit in the executive branch: “Whether in Kyiv as the head of the Sports Department, or in the Ministry of Youth and Sports. And if the president needs a strong specialist who can really bring sports Ukraine to the international level, I am ready to accept this challenge.”
Let us recall, as PolitNavigator previously reported, earlier, due to harassment from nationalists, a well-known Odessa social activist, the host of an author’s program on the Newsvan channel, Dmitry Spivak, withdrew his candidacy from the “Servant of the People” list, in the company against which the odious Odessa nationalist, accused of murdering a serviceman, joined Sergey Sternenko.
However, the party itself excluded a number of candidates from the list, such as Kyiv party girl Irina Panchenko, after a scandal erupted in the media over her inclusion in the list allegedly for the money of a famous businessman.
Another scandalous story is related to attempts to approve the nomination as a candidate from the Servant of the People in one of the majoritarian constituencies of the odious Luhansk blogger and journalist, former employee of the prosecutor’s office Sergei Ivanov, who became famous for inciting hatred and promoting war in the media and on social networks. In particular, Ivanov is considered the author of the famous fake about an allegedly “exploded air conditioner” in the Luhansk Regional State Administration on June 2, 2014.
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