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| Pro-West parties win Ukraine elections: Exit polls |
| 2014-10-27 |
| A table to indicate which party gained what. Most notable is that the Ukrainian communists failed to gain a seat. [Iran Press TV] Exit polls show that pro-Western and nationalist parties have won Ukraine's parliamentary elections after refusal by millions of people in the restive east to take part in the vote. According to the exit polls, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Bloc, comprised of his own Solidarity Party and Udar Party, led by boxer Vitali Klitschko, took 23 percent of the votes cast on Sunday. The bloc was followed by the People's Front led by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, which garnered 21 percent. Members of Ukraine's 450-seat Supreme Council, also known as the Verkhovna Rada, serve five-year terms. In nationally televised comments after the election, Poroshenko thanked the voters for backing his plans, especially the country's attempts to become a member of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... "More than three quarters of voters who took part in the polls gave strong and irreversible backing to Ukraine's path to Europe," Poroshenko said. He added that a majority of the voters also supported his search for political solutions to end the conflict in the country's east. Poroshenko noted that he would start talks on forming a coalition with other pro-Western parties in the parliament on Monday. The vote was called in August as Poroshenko came under pressure to purge the parliament of politicians who were allegedly tied to the tossed government of Viktor Yanukovych. The elections came amid ongoing fighting between the Ukrainian army and pro-Russian forces in the volatile east. Some three million voters in areas of the eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, which are under the control of pro-Russian forces, were unable to cast ballots. The leaders of these regions are scheduling their own elections for early November. |
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