National Corps, Svoboda, Right Sector, veterans and civil organization have decided to participate in early parliamentary elections as a single nationalist bloc with the requisite consolidation of patriotic groups and organizations.
Svoboda said on Facebook on Sunday, June 9, that the first five candidates of the “united force of nationalists on Svoboda’s party list include the founder, first commander of Azov, National Corps party leader and independent Member of Parliament Andriy Biletsky, leader of the National movement Diya (Acts), ex-Right Sector leader and independent MP Dmytro Yarosh and current Right Sector leader Andriy Tarasenko.
Biletsky, Yarosh and Tarasenko occupy the second, third and fourth places respectively on the party’s ticket. The list is headed by Svoboda leader Oleh Tiahnybok, and No. 5 is a former presidential candidate from the party and vice-speaker of the parliament, Ruslan Koshulynsky.
The second five includes actor, people’s artist of Ukraine Bohdan Beniuk, head of the National Corps headquarters Rodion Kudriashov, Chairman of Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council Oleksandr Sych, head of the Ukrainian State Film Agency Philip Illienko and chairman of the Svoboda faction in Kyiv City Council Yuriy Syrotiuk.
According to the press service of National Corps, the nationalist political forces and civil organizations united in order to relaunch Ukraine’s patriotic movement on the basis of a constructive and decisive resistance to existing threats facing the country.
“Future elections will be a decisive step and a difficult test for Ukraine. The vector of the state’s development will be determined for another five years. During this time, the country can either be reborn from the ashes and repel the aggressor, or burn to death in the flames of war and corruption. The fate of the nation is at stake. This is why we are united. In these difficult times, only patriots are powerful and the only counterweight to anti-Ukrainian elements in politics that have been speculating on the interests of the state for years. Together, we will not give them a chance for revenge,” the party’s press service said on Sunday.
“The basis of the new parliament will be true patriots with a clean reputation and a sincere desire to work in the interests of the people, in the name of the Ukrainian people. They know how to make Ukraine prosperous,” the party said.
