KIEV, Ukraine—Two pro-European parties in Ukraine that ran on a platform to enact tough reforms shared the lead after a parliamentary election, according to partial results released Monday.
With more than half the votes counted, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s Popular Front was leading with 21.6 percent of the vote while President Petro Poroshenko’s party had captured 21.5 percent.
Poroshenko said after Sunday’s election that he wanted Western-oriented parties to quickly form a broad reformist coalition. The Interfax-Ukraine news agency cited Yuriy Lutsenko, a leading figure in the Poroshenko Bloc, as saying the draft coalition agreement would be published later Monday.
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Source: The Epoch Times
