In Volyn region, correspondent for Tochka OPORY could not attend party conference due to address change
In Volodymyr-Volynskyi (Volyn region) on September 22, Yuliya Yutovets, correspondent for Tochka Opory, did not attend a conference of the regional organization of the Nash Kray political party, as the address of the meeting has been changed, as the Civic Network OPORA reported on its website.
According to the report, at due time, the room indicated as the conference venue was closed.
“I arrived at the room a few minutes before 8 pm and immediately started looking for where the conference was to take place. This is a one-story building with shops, a beauty salon… I walked around it from all sides, met a security guard: he said that everything was closed here, there was no party here, and this was the first time he had heard about this event, ” Yulia Yutovets said.
As OPORA was told in the Volyn regional territorial election commission, the regional organization of the Nash Kray party submitted a notice of the party conference with the specified address. According to the chairman of the commission Ivan Lazorko ("”Za Maybutne” (For the Future), there was no report on eventual address changes.
As OPORA was later told by the party, the party conference did take place, but at a different address, and the TECs was not informed of, as the changes took place “very quickly and for some reasons beyond control”.
OPORA also emphasized that the announcement of the party conference of the Volyn regional branch of the party posted on the official website of the Nash Kray political force did not specify the procedure for media accreditation and did not specify any contacts for additional information about the event.
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