FT: candidates radicals May get into Rada as " war heroes "

Certain " candidates xenophobes ", May still get the Verkhovna Rada, as most voters believe their " war heroes ", he writes.

The main Pro-Western party of Ukraine, wanting to provide voters " new proxies ", began to be nominated as candidates commanders and ordinary soldiers from battalions, created this year to support " poorly equipped and inexperienced Ukrainian army, " writes the print edition.
The FT believes that at least one candidate, according to available evidence, is a supporter of racist views. This battalion commander, " Azov " Andrey Biletsky, which, according to the publication, imputed published on the Internet explanations about the " superiority of the white race " and the emblem of the party which, in the opinion of the part of the voters, resembles a swastika.

He Biletsky denied that wrote something similar, emphasizes FT. One way or another, continues the print edition, most of the other volunteers battalion " Azov "travelling with Bilecki as part of his election campaign, openly expressed xenophobic and racist attitudes.

A German Professor, an expert on right-wing movements Andreas Ullmann, who now resides in Ukraine, said that he believes Biletsky and several other candidates " biological racists ".

anyway, some voters, writes the FT, supporting candidates from the volunteer battalions, because they " risked their lives for the sake of Ukraine " and not like the candidates of previous years.

Elections to the Verkhovna Rada will be held on October 26, will be elected 424 MP: 199 - in single-member constituencies and 225 party list with reduced barrier of 5%.


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