Batkivshchyna names top five candidates on its election list

The Batkivshchyna All-Ukrainian Association has named the first five candidates running in early elections to the Verkhovna Rada set for July 21, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko headed the election list. She is followed by leader of the Osnova party Serhiy Taruta, former Chief of the Security Service of Ukraine and chairman of the Justice party Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, deputy head of the Batkivshchyna faction in parliament Serhiy Sobolev and party deputy Olena Kondratiuk.

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