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“The Party Is Fundamentally Against My Candidacy”: Joker Pranks Servant of the People Member by Posing as Iryna Herashchenko

Bohdan Yaremenko and Galyna Mykhailiuk, photo depo.ua
Bohdan Yaremenko and Galyna Mykhailiuk, photo depo.ua

Now Galyna Mykhailiuk has been caught.

Servant of the People party member Galyna Mykhailiuk, who had been vying for the post of head of the parliamentary committee on foreign policy, fell for a prank by “Joker,” who wrote to her posing as Iryna Herashchenko from European Solidarity.

The screenshots of the correspondence were first shown live on the NewsOne TV channel.

“Herashchenko” expressed support for Mykhailiuk’s candidacy, who was set to replace Bohdan Yaremenko, who had been caught in a sex scandal. In response, she complained that the party leadership did not support her candidacy. 

Mykhailiuk also wrote that Servant of the People faction leader Davyd Arakhamia says “all sorts of nonsense” to her in conversation.

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Yesterday, the Verkhovna Rada rejected the appointment of another Servant of the People member — Yelyzaveta Yasko —as head of the foreign policy committee.