KIEV, Ukraine—Two exit polls indicated that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s party will secure a narrow win in Sunday’s parliamentary election, falling substantially short of an outright majority.
The vote, which aimed to overhaul a legislature tainted by its association with the ousted former president, Viktor Yanukovych, was expected to usher in a contingent of largely pro-Western lawmakers.
The Rating Group Ukraine exit poll said the Poroshenko Bloc won 22.2 percent of the vote and that Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s Popular Front party came second at 21.8 percent. A recently formed pro-European party based in western Ukraine, Samopomich, was seen in third with …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
