MP candidates nominated by party lists of the Civic Position political party (Anatolii Hrytsenko) conducted a number of meetings with the voters in Khmelnytsk oblast. However, party leader Anatolii Hrytsenko didn't meet with the voters himself. He spoke to the journalists on a press-conference and gave some interviews for local TV channels. Members of his team spoke to the voters instead – in cities of Khmelnytsk, Kamianets-Podilskyi, and Slavuta.

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- The slogan of 2014 presidential elections which were held during the war was "To win in the first round or have a bloody war". The President was elected in the first round, so what? The number of casualties has even increased. So, please, don't speculate on such issues, - said Anatolii Hrytsenko repeatedly. – Besides that, the President continues to say: his party of peace, in contrast to all other parties. But it's not true, we think the other way. There are parties of freedom and dignity, which share these values and are ready to protect them. There are parties of capitulation, which are ready to yield and hand over the country.

He has also mentioned that neither government of Arsenii Yatseniuk, nor the team of President Petro Poroshenko haven't started any reforms, and started to talk about changes only when the campaign started. Candidates from the Civic Position Oleh Derevianenko (#4 in the party list) and Nataliia Sokolenko (#13 in the party list), emphasized openness of parliamentary activities when giving a speech in Kamianets-Podilskyi.

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- When other politicians were only talking about the necessity to create social lifts for young people involved in civic and political activities who need to get into the parliament to be able to make changes, Hrytsenko did two things. He invited the Democratic Alliance, party which kept the Maidan alive, and some civic activists to the list of the Civic Position,  - stated Nataliia Sokolenko. - We want to do in the parliament what we did as civic activists: budgets should be open on all levels and published online; all decisions should be taken by an open algorithm.

Candidates have also criticized inclusion of Zlata Ohnievych and Denys Sylaniev in the list of the Radical Party (Liashko). "After the phrase "We have lost the war with corruption", Yatseniuk should have resigned, not nominated".

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Mykhailo Tsymbaliuk,
Press-secretary of Parliamentary observation campaign in Khmelnytsk oblast, Civil Network OPORA
+380965656879,
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Andrii Popyk,
Coordinator of Parliamentary observation campaign in Khmelnytsk oblast, Civil Network OPORA
+380979351390
 
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