Oleksandr Moroz Ready to Make Friends with Everybody
12 мая, 00:00
By Valery KOSTIUKEVYCH, The Day
"To remove the current ruling regime," said Socialist Party leader Oleksandr
Moroz last Friday in Zhytomyr, "I am ready to cooperate with practically
all presidential candidates in the coming elections." He also pointed out
the possibility of specific negotiations over coalitions with the most
realistic contenders for the presidency at a certain stage of the pre-election
marathon, when the popularity ratings of its participants became clearer,
as well as over the distribution of key posts in case one of these candidates
wins. Answering The Day's question if such deals are possible with
candidates other than from the Left, Mr. Moroz confirmed that the search
for a coalition does and will not include only figures of this spectrum
of politics, mentioning in this connection the name of Yevhen Marchuk.
However, he added, there will be no talks with Progressive Socialist leader
Natalia Vitrenko, one of the candidates Mr. Moroz thinks were "appointed"
by Leonid Kuchma.
At the same time, in his opinion, if the current President and Communist
leader Petro Symonenko qualify for the second round of the presidential
elections, the former will have a much greater chance to win. In other
words, Mr. Moroz means in this context that he considers himself the most
electable leftist candidate.
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