“Unfortunately, the ‘Pora-PRP’ campaign was conducted ineptly. From the slogan ‘Yes, Klitschko!’ to the inept television advertising,” Taras Stetskiv, head of the Lviv Oblast Organization of the PRP, said in a statement to the Western Information Corporation.
“Everything that was proposed, including by me, was rejected by the bloc’s central headquarters with ostentatious stubbornness. That is why we lost. We missed two serious blows in the final week. When Yulia began attacking the bloc, and the bloc did not respond at all. When she says that we are unelectable. And the bloc’s leadership has no counter-statements whatsoever. Yushchenko’s statement also played a role — that he would be very sad that Kostenko, Plyushch, and Klitschko’s UNB would not be in parliament. Voters interpreted this as our guaranteed failure to get in. That is why voters rushed to Yulia. Voters did not believe that we would make it,” T. Stetskiv emphasized.