Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to deny PARNAS activists authorization to go to Crimea for election campaigning
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry will not give candidates from the Russian opposition Party PARNAS authorization for election campaigning in Crimea, Director of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's Policy and Communications Department Oleksiy Makeiev said.
"Bearing it in mind that it's an occupied area, naturally, Ukraine cannot give any permission for election campaigning in the territory of Crimea," Makeiev said in an interview with the portal Krym.Realii, adding that "election in Ukrainian territory of deputies of a different state cannot be allowed."
As reported, Alexei Korolyov, Alexander Safronov and Marina Kapytsa, State Duma candidates nominated by the party PARNAS as part of regional group N33 (Krasnodar Territory-Adygea-Crimea), earlier this week sent to the Ukrainian Consulate General in Rostov-on-Don applications for transit visas for Ukraine to conduct election campaigning.
