Journalists with Tochka OPORY denied access to conference of Palchevsky’s party
On September 15, in Kyiv, several journalists, including those ones of Tochka OPORY, were not allowed to attend the conference of the city organization of the “Palchevsky’s Victory” political party. The organizers justified it lockdown restrictions, as Kyiv is part of "orange zone".
The civic network OPORA reported of the incident on its website.
According to the report, on September 9, the political force "Victory of Palchevsky" posted on its website information about the conference of the Kyiv branch of the party, which was scheduled for September 15. Accreditation was fulfilled by phone, with deadline fixed at 3.00 p.m. on September 14.
Correspondents of Tochka OPORA were accredited on due time, but since Kyiv is in “orange zone” of coronavirus alert, only one person was accredited. However, on the morning of September 15, representatives of the political force called the editorial office and said that the conference would be held without media representatives, as they had a very small room and they did not even know how to seat delegates. They promised to OPORA to send photos and a press release of the conference.
Nevertheless, the conference was broadcast live on the Unity news agency's Facebook page. On the video one could see that the chairman of the conference saying that media representatives were attending the event, OPORA noted.
The press service of the “Victory of Palchevsky” commented on the incident saying that "journalists were allowed to the event, but they were obliged to refuse those who were accredited later, due to lockdown restrictions due to placing of Kyiv in the" orange zone."
At the conference, Andriy Palchevsky was nominated as a candidate for the position of mayor and they voted for the lists of candidates in the single and territorial electoral lists for the Kyiv City Council elections.
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