16:22 01.05.2015

Firtash backed Klitschko-Poroshenko team at 2014 presidential elections, then spoke for Klitschko's withdrawal from presidential race – MP Liovochkin

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Firtash backed Klitschko-Poroshenko team at 2014 presidential elections, then spoke for Klitschko's withdrawal from presidential race – MP Liovochkin

Former head of then Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych's administration, leader of the Opposition Bloc parliamentary faction Serhiy Liovochkin has said that he was present at a meeting of Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash, then businessman Petro Poroshenko and politician Vitali Klitschko in Vienna, on March 24, 2014, where the 2014 presidential elections were discussed.

"Firtash believed that the unification of democratic candidates Klitschko and Poroshenko brought [Batkivschyna Party Leader Yulia] Tymoshenko's chances to naught," Liovochkin said giving evidence as a witness at a court hearing of the case on Firtash's extradition to the United States in Vienna on Thursday, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported.

The politician refused to disclose the details of the meeting and his role in it.

However, Liovochkin said that during that meeting, Firtash supported the withdrawal by Klitschko of his candidacy for the president, because Poroshenko had higher level of public support.

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