The UDAR Party has rejected recent reports accusing it of hiring children in Lviv region to campaign for the parliamentary elections, and called on the Regions Party to retract such claims in public.
A party’s press release issued on Thursday reads that the Regions Party released a false statement on alleged violations of pre-election campaigning rules by the UDAR Party.
“The ruling party posted on its official Web site a statement that a case on the hiring of young children as UDAR campaigners had been opened in Novy Rozdil in Lviv region,” reads the text of the statement.
“As proof, the Regions Party posted a photo of our activist Yevhen Borivets. The representatives of the ruling party, who accused UDAR of using child labor, did not even ask the campaigner about his age,” reads the party’s statement.
UDAR said that Borivets turned 18 in April 2012, and that he has the right to campaign at the parliamentary elections on October 28.
UDAR called on the Regions Party to retract the statement and apologize to the party activist.
