Ukraine Ignoring Party Registration Bid

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Nadia Savchenko, a former military helicopter navigator who entered politics after returning home following two years in a Russian jail, says the Justice Ministry is ignoring her request to register her new political movement.

Savchenko spoke at a news conference on May 25, exactly a year after she was released in a prisoner exchange and days after telling Polish news outlet Krytyka Polityczna that she is "ready to take responsibility for the country and run for president" in 2019.

Savchenko had planned to present her new political force, the Sociopolitical Platform of Nadia Savchenko. But she said that "the Justice Ministry...without providing any comments or explanations, without answering any appeals, requests, phone calls, has not registered the party."

The Justice Ministry did not immediately respond to Savchenko’s claim.

Lack of registration would prevent Savchenko's political movement from participating in future elections and hurt her chances in a presidential campaign.

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-savchenko-party-registration-bid-election-russia/28508944.html