{"id":403664,"date":"2019-04-14T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/ukrainian-president-arrives-debate-kyiv-challenger-doesnt\/"},"modified":"2019-04-14T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T11:00:30","slug":"ukrainian-president-arrives-debate-kyiv-challenger-doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/ukrainian-president-arrives-debate-kyiv-challenger-doesnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian President Arrives For Debate In Kyiv, Challenger Doesn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39482 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/picture-26-e1555247827459.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo RadioFreeEurope\/RadioLiberty<\/h5>\n<p>Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko arrived at Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kyiv for a presidential election debate although <a href=\"https:\/\/eng.uatv.ua\/presidential-debate-april-14-walkthrough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his challenger<\/a>, Volodymyr Zelenskiy did not.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskiy said he will only agree to spar with Poroshenko at the stadium five days later.<\/p>\n<p>Poroshenko and Zelenskiy will face off in Ukraine&#8217;s presidential runoff on April 21. Zelenskiy won the first round earlier this month. At the moment, opinion polls put him in front of Poroshenko.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskiy insists a debate at Olympiyskiy Stadium take place on April 19 while Poroshenko wanted it to be held today, as Ukrainian law requires that a debate at <a href=\"https:\/\/eng.uatv.ua\/no-reason-change-current-legislation-teledebates-cec\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the public television station<\/a> through the public broadcaster be held on April 19.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Poroshenko has also said he would be <a href=\"https:\/\/eng.uatv.ua\/petro-poroshenko-ready-debate-april-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">willing to debate at Olympiskiy Stadium on April 19<\/a>, so long as it does not conflict with the time when the public debate is scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Poroshenko walked into the stadium accompanied by his wife and children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was not me who proposed the site of the event, it was a certain man,&#8221; Poroshenko <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/ukrainian-president-poroshenko-debate-at-stadium\/29879831.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the audience<\/a>, standing next to an empty lectern bearing Zelenskiy&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>He then addressed Zelenskiy, saying, &#8220;I know you&#8217;re watching,&#8221; and added, ironically, that Zelenskiy must be having a rest after his trip to Paris where he met French President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n<p>Poroshenko also called on Zelenskiy to show up at the stadium, saying that otherwise, he would invite him to a televised debate every day.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by a reporter if he would cooperate with Zelenskiy if the latter won the presidency, Poroshenko replied, &#8220;If, God forbid, he were to be elected, that would still be the choice of the Ukrainian people and I would respect that choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The stadium has confirmed it also received a request to hold a debate on April 19, leaving open the possibility that Zelenskiy will show up on his preferred date.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo RadioFreeEurope\/RadioLiberty Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko arrived at Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kyiv &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":403665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,36415],"tags":[],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-403664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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