By Pavel Polityuk and Richard Balmforth
Pro-Europe parties secured a big win in an election in Ukraine, a partial vote count showed on Monday, with President Petro Poroshenko hailing people’s support for his plan to end a separatist war and pursue democratic reforms sought by the West.
Early figures from the vote count showed that Poroshenko’s bloc and the party of his ally, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk, were both taking over 21 per cent of the votes cast from a field of 29 competing parties.
Addressing Ukrainians two hours after polling ended on Sunday night, he thanked voters for backing a “democratic, reformist, …read more
Source: Cyprus Mail
