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Leaders of the Batkivschyna and People's Self Defense parties, Yulia Tymoshenko and Yuriy Lutsenko, who are currently held in custody, know about the plans of their political forces to participate jointly in the parliamentary elections scheduled for 2012, MP Yuriy Hrymchak of the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense said on air of Channel 5.

The lawmaker said that the People’s Self-Defense had human resources, who will join the team of the Batkivschyna Party, whereas the funding will be taken care of later.

"The People’s Self-Defense have enough human resource, it has branches in all the regions, in some regions it is stronger in others weaker, but they are present in all regions. Today, we are unit ing human resource rather than financial, material resource. That is, we are currently uniting human resource and the funding will come," the lawmaker said.