Speaker of the election headquarters of incumbent Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Oleh Medvedev, has said they are not afraid of the team-up of leader of the Samopomich Party Andriy Sadovyi and leader of the Hromadianska Pozytsia (Civil Position) Party Anatoliy Hrytsenko.
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"Our analysis shows that a small group of voters of Andriy Ivanovych [Sadovyi] has already split among six candidates in different proportions. And I can even tell you that some of Sadovyi's voters are ready to vote for Petro Poroshenko if he [Sadovyi] is withdrawn from the race, and not only for Anatoliy Hrytsenko," he said at a briefing on Friday, according to the Ukrainian news outlet Ukrayinska Pravda.
Regarding the possibility of the president's team-up with one of the candidates, Medvedev said such an alliance "will not significantly change the alignment of forces in the campaign and the ranking of the candidates in ratings."
