The UKROP party will do the best to ensure its candidates run a good campaign and win the midterm parliamentary elections, scheduled for July, 17. The MP Taras Batenko, who was elected chairman of the political council of the party, said it on May 27 after the end of the 8th Party Congress of UKROP.
“We claim the victory and we will do our best to ensure that our candidates run this campaign in a decent way and win,” said Taras Batenko. He has also noted that the UKROP party had nominated reputable and well-known candidates in all seven districts. According to the MP the candidates from UKROP can confidently claim victory, as some of them have already been elected to the regional and local councils, having got good results in the last local elections.
The main advantage of UKROP nominees, unlike most of the representatives of the other parties, will be face-to-face contact with the voters and concrete actions rather than cheap populism, said Taras Batenko. “We are working hard to meet the needs and interests of the community, and we do our best to defuse the pressure that is now being put on the civil society by the authorities,” said the MP.
Among the main priorities of UKROP is the fight against corruption and resistance to repressive mechanisms used by the current authorities against those who disagree with its policy, summed up the head of the political council of the party.
It is to be recalled, on May 27, there was held the 8th Congress of the UKROP party delegates were the candidates for the midterm elections to the Verkhovna Rada were nominated. In the district № 23 in Volyn region, the party’s candidate is Irina Konstankevych, deputy of the regional council, pedagogue, deputy chairman of Ihor Palytsya Charitable Fund “Only together”; in the district № 27 in Dnipropetrovsk – human rights defender and lawyer Oksana Tomchuk, who represented Hennady Korban during the trials in the years 2015-2016; in the district № 183 in Kherson – Oleksandr Knyga, director, artistic director of the regional music and drama theatre; in the district № 151 in Poltava region – Inna Avramenko, volunteer, deputy of the regional council; in the district № 206 in Chernihiv – Yaroslav Girich, civic activist, director general of the medical company “UMPK group”; in the district № 114 in Luhansk region – Roman Bruchko, scientist, civic activist, co-founder of the LLC “Sapphire Ukraine”; in the district № 85 in Ivano-Frankivsk – Victor Shevchenko, businessman, member of the regional council from UKROP.
