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 The Our Ukraine Party performed a technical task in the interests of the Regions Party in the parliamentary election in 2012, the head of Our Ukraine's political council, Serhiy Bondarchuk, has said.

“No matter how sad it may sound, I have to admit that the Our Ukraine
Party carried out a technical task in the interests of the Regions
Party in the last elections to the Verkhovna Rada,” he said in an
interview with Kommersant-Ukraine, which was published on Monday, while
commenting on the situation with suspicions by party colleagues that Our
Ukraine leader Viktor Yuschenko is cooperating with the pro-government
party.

Bondarchuk said that the responsibility for this lies with Yuschenko and the treasurer.

“This is a question to the managers of the campaign – Viktor
Yuschenko and Treasurer Viktor Ivanovych Kostenko. These two men bear
full responsibility for what happened, in particular, for the fact that
the members of district election commissions were replaced in the
interest of the Regions Party. These facts were established by
documents,” he said.

On January 26, supporters of Yuschenko and supporters of Bondarchuk
tried to hold two parallel meetings of the party’s political council at
different locations.

Bondarchuk said that 26 members of the political council from 18
regional branches had arrived and registered for the meeting at the
party’s office on Spaska Street.

“We could not figure out how many members of the political council
are at another address,” he said, noting that members of the political
council from Spaska Street were barred from the meeting, chaired by
Yuschenko in Kyiv Hotel.

The head of the party’s political council said that the recent actions by Yuschenko were aimed at splitting the party.