Parliamentary deputy Mykola Katerynchuk of the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense Bloc faction, who is candidate for Kyiv mayor and leader of the same-name bloc, denies him technically being candidate of incumbent mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi for mayoral election in the capital.
Katerynchuk has announced this in the press centre of Ukrainian News.
He also rebutted similar statements made by Interior Minister Yurii Lutsenko, another candidate for Kyiv mayor.
"It's a pity that ministers lie to the society... He's lying now and I think I can prove this in court," said Katerynchuk.
Representative of the Katerynchuk Bloc Oleksii Reznikov says that Katerynchuk personally and his bloc separately correspondingly filed two claims to Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district court on May 14.
With these claims they demand recognize unlawful actions of Lutsenko, as participant in the election, and pronouncements about Katerynchuk and his bloc as conscious spreading of untrue information.
The bloc expects that the court will oblige Kyiv city territorial election commission to give a warning to Lutsenko.
"Speaking about technically, not technically... You know, when they cannot label with corruption, accuse of any actions in Kyiv council, say that Katerynchuk is gay... they resort to such tricks," added Katerynchuk.
He told that many times he was proposed to withdraw him from the election in favour of Vitalii Klychko and Oleksandr Turchynov.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, campaigning in the election started on March 26.
Kyiv mayoral and municipal council elections will take place on May 25.
There are seventy-five candidates for Kyiv mayor and thirty-seven parties and blocs for Kyiv council.
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