Whoever wants to, and walks, but not on all topics. “Servants of the People” told who they agree with on TV broadcasts

The scandal involving “public servants”, which has already been christened “temnikgate”, began with a Facebook post by the host of the talk show “Countdown” on the “UA: First” TV channel Miroslava Barchuk… She complained, they say, lately The office of the president puts forward conditions for its wordingwho from the mono-majority deputies will be present on the air, and who will not.

The journalists of the Segodnya website personally asked the deputies from the presidential faction whether what Barchuk wrote about them was true.

My own speaker

One of the closest to Bankova deputies from the Servant of the People faction Nikolai Tishchenko Denies the instructions of the Office. He says that everyone himself expresses a desire, whether he shines on television or not.

“Nobody tells anyone. We have a strategy, it was from the first days. There was also an offer from me to my group for those who want to be on the air, who feel the desire, skill and professionalism in themselves. People signed up for such groups and They work. It is normal today in politics, when there are speakers, and such speakers exist in Servant of the People. But no one imposes on us. We are People’s Deputies of Ukraine, it is impossible to impose any idea on us today, “Tishchenko assured.

Colleague Tishchenko also rules out interference by presidential aides in information policy Stepan Chernyavsky:

“This is the first time I hear it. Firstly, the deputy himself has to decide where to go, where to give interviews and with whom to communicate. The manipulations are going on, it’s always been politics. I don’t have such information that there is something in the OP There is a desire or unwillingness of the deputies to go on certain broadcasts – this is another question. We know that those TV channels belong either to some oligarch or to a political force, and they can make you guilty. And so that the Office of the President – it’s 100% not. “

All questions to the press service

The deputies say that separate coordinators agree on their appearance on television. They make the schedule and communicate with the guest editors of the TV channels. However, they do this not in order to prohibit, but on the contrary – to maintain a balance. At least that’s what the “public servants” say.

“It is clear that we have a faction, we have a party, we have structures with which, of course, they are trying to coordinate a common message, try to structure the fact that there are more people on the air. There is nothing imperative there. the fact that this coordination should be, we are one force, we should not be at war with each other all the time. And therefore we should not argue with each other for broadcasts, it is necessary to structure, “- this is how the situation in the faction explained to Segodnya. People’s Deputy Svyatoslav Yurash.

Alexei Ustenko, a member of Yuras’s party also neither sleep nor spirit about the “lists of banned people’s deputies.” They say that no one is forced and no one is forbidden to go to TV channels.

“There is no list, we see that completely different speakers go on air: both opposition speakers and those who are opposed to within the faction. But the question here is that there should be at least two representatives of the authorities, because we understand when there are eight or ten guests in the studio and everyone is opposed to the authorities, then it is necessary that the “Servant of the People” representation should consist of at least two people. This is a normal practice and this is clearly not a return to the times of Yanukovych. We have never had stop lists. There is some kind of agreement about centralized campaigns on the air, but there is no such thing that “you can go, but you cannot, this one wants, but this one does not want to.” We have different speakers, and talk about the fact that someone it walks, and someone is a “favorite” of 10 people – well, that’s not true. Because objectively there are many more deputies who walk and represent the position, “the people’s deputy is sure.

Who studied what

Irina Vereshchuk, a representative of the mono-majority explains how “servants” appear on TV screens. Everyone comes out with the topic that they know best:

“We have recommendations to go on airs in the pro-session areas. I. If someone understands tariffs or social policy, it is obviously better that they go. This is how coordination happens. Someone has more media coverage, some less, and some want to get it, and some do not maybe. And this requires professional coordination. To say that once I was forbidden to go on air, and the main thing when I am invited, this is not. Therefore, I consider the reproaches of Ms. Miroslava as biased, and if the “servants of the people” did not come to one of the broadcasts – it’s definitely not a system. “

Said off topic – was out of the faction

Lyudmila Buimisterrecently expelled from the ranks of the “Servant of the People”, stop-lists denies. But he admits: the deputies who allow themselves to express their own opinion, and not party messages, are under pressure.

“It is very noteworthy that when I was expelled from the faction, David Arakhamia said that the main reason is that I go on air and express an opinion not agreed with the leadership of the faction. In particular, regarding the situation in the energy industry. This links these trends with pressure on the media with the pressure that I experienced in the Servant of the People faction for the most resonant decisions, with the pressure that, unfortunately, my colleagues in the faction continue to experience. “

The politician emphasizes that any pressure on the media is unacceptable in a democratic state.