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One of the leaders of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Oleksandr Moroz, has said that the Socialist Party hopes to overcome the 5% election threshold and bring a dozen nominees from single-member constituency to the Verkhovna Rada.

Speaking at a press briefing at the end of the Congress of the
Socialist Party of Ukraine on Tuesday, Moroz said that ideally some
forty to fifty candidates running in single-member constituency could
get seats in the parliament.

“Because actually these are people who have been tested by life, whom
locals know. But I’m not a utopian, and I understand what forces are
currently acting against us. Therefore we are unlikely to be able to
fulfill this task,” he said.

“But I think that ten to fifteen candidates in single-seat constituencies can make it,” he said.

“We expect to overcome the election threshold,” Moroz said.

Asked why he was running in a single-seat constituency rather than on
the party ticket, Moroz recalled that the 16th Congress of the
Socialists decided that former MPs would be nominated in single-member
constituencies.