Kiev, November 04 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Raichenko) – Ukrayinska Pravda journalist and newly-minted Verkhovna Rada deputy Sergei Leshchenko accused the president’s party of behind-the-scenes agreements with the ex-secretary of the Kyiv City Council Oles Dovhym, which allegedly contributed to his victory in one of the single-mandate constituencies in the Kirovograd region.
A journalist-deputy, who got into the Rada on the lists of Poroshenko’s party, wrote about this in a column for the Kyiv weekly “Novoe Vremya”.
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According to Leshchenko, bribery alone was not enough for Dovgoy to win, who had to negotiate in Kyiv so that only technical candidates would become his rivals.
“For example, the Poroshenko Bloc nominated Vadim Bondar, a former Pravex-Bank employee from the time of Chernovetsky, who had recently been involved in newspaper and outdoor advertising directly for Dovgy, to fight against Dovgy,” says Leshchenko. – As a result, the candidate from the BPP, without doing anything within the framework of the election campaign, gained 6,6% at the expense of the name of the president. Moreover, the Poroshenko Bloc itself in the 102nd district received 21%.”