06 October 2009, 09:50
Mykola Tomenko: Politicians failed to accept a Proposal to refuse from Negative Advertising and stop throwing Mud at Each Other
Mykola Tomenko, the Vice-Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine declared it while delivering the speech on ICTV channel in the "Svoboda Slova" TV program.
He stressed that claim of All Ukrainian Association "Batkivshchyna"(Motherland) to the
Pechersk Court of Kyiv city was an attempt to attract the attention to the necessity to control the broadcasting lest it should be full of the negative information and lest the presidential election campaign should be transformed into the political "showdown". "We already have had the sad experience when certain political powers during the presidential campaign humiliated own people and sorted it into three species".
The Vice-chairman mentioned that "unfortunately, the discussion proved that each deem deems it would not face problems during the campaign, consequently there is no need the constructive and positive discussion".
M. Tomenko announced that YTB has adopted the decision to call the claim back but reminds that if one does not stop that war, there will be no winners. "In hustings a lot of candidates with complicated biography take part and it is obvious that the episodes in theses biographies would become parts of advertising", - he emphasized.
The Vice-Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine proclaimed that "it would be ideal if the problem is solved before hustings commence, still it failed to be realistic".