Zelenskyi team offers conducting debates with Poroshenko over telebridge

The campaign headquarters of showman and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskyi has offered to hold debate with incumbent President Petro Poroshenko live via telebridge.

Censor.NET reports citing Priamyi TV channel. 

"We are offering a compromise. If everyone really wants us to debate, in order not to create the impression we are avoiding the debates, we propose (debating) via a telebridge," Ze!Team headquarters chairman Ivan Bakanov said.

"If Poroshenko is at Ukraine's national public broadcast studio (UA:PBC) and we are at the Olympiyskiy Stadium, we can combine the broadcast feeds and debate with one another live on air," Bakanov said.

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As earlier reported, according to the official voting results, Volodymyr Zelenskyi got 30.24% of the vote, Petro Poroshenko – 15.95%. On April 3, Zelenskyi invited Poroshenko to a debate before the second round of presidential elections. Zelenskyi stressed that the debate should take place at the Olimpiiskyi stadium in Kyiv, in the presence of all interested journalists and television channels.

Poroshenko, in his video address, reminded that according to the rules of the debate stipulated in the law on presidential elections, it can be held on public television and broadcast on all television channels. "But if it's the stadium, let it be the stadium. I'm waiting for you, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych," Poroshenko said.