Murayev withdraws his candidacy from presidential race in favor of Vilkul

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published March 7, 2019 at 4:24 pm

Yevgeniy Murayev, a candidate in the March 31 presidential election, is a member of parliament with more influence than most lawmakers because he owns Nash TV station, which peddles Kremlin propaganda as news. He dishes dirt on Ukraine's pro-Russian opposition split in a Kyiv Post interview on Jan. 24, 2019.

Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin

Yevhen Murayev, a presidential candidate of Ukraine, MP, has announced his withdrawal from the presidential race in favor of deputy head of the Opposition Bloc parliamentary group Oleksandr Vilkul.

“I’m withdrawing my candidacy … in favor of Oleksandr Vilkul,” Murayev said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday afternoon.

As was reported, March 7 is the deadline for candidates to apply for withdrawal from the presidential campaign. On March 8, the Central Election Commission must approve the final list of candidates for the presidency.