: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Pro-European parties lead Ukraine poll


With more than one-third of the votes counted, two allied pro-European parties in Ukraine that ran on a platform to enact tough reforms took a joint lead Monday in a parliamentary election.Partial figures showed Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s Popular Front with 21.6 percent of the vote and President Petro Poroshenko’s party at 21.5 percent.Poroshenko said after Sunday’s election that he wanted Western-oriented parties elected to quickly form a broad reformist coalition. Negotiations on forming that coalition are expected to begin Monday and be completed within 10 days.A recently formed pro-European party based in western Ukraine, Samopomich, was running third with …read more

Source: The Jakarta Post

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