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Leader of the Batkivschyna parliamentary faction Arseniy Yatseniuk has said that Batkivschyna Party will support Vitali Klitschko's candidacy for Kyiv mayor.

“The position of the Batkivschyna faction and the Batkivschyna party is the following: if Vitali Klitschko runs for mayor, we will support this candidacy without a doubt and without any conditions. We have to win in Kyiv,” Yatseniuk told a press briefing in Kyiv on Monday.

He stressed that the issue of mayoral election in Kyiv “has been on agenda in Ukraine for more than a year.”

“We think that the only person that could win the election without a doubt is, of course, Vitali Klitschko,” he said.

Yatseniuk said that the Batkivschyna faction would not set forth any conditions in exchange for supporting Klitschko.