President Petro Poroshenko’s bloc holds a big lead ahead of Ukraine’s election on Sunday while a rising populist party looks set to take second place, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday.
A surge in support for the Radical Party of populist Oleh Lyashko, the champion of government troops and scourge of super-wealthy oligarchs, threatens former prime minister Julia Tymoshenko’s chances of winning a seat in the new parliament, according to the survey by the Democratic Initiative Foundation.
Poroshenko’s Solidarity party and its Udar ally, led by former boxer Vitaly Klitschko, would take 20.5 percent of the vote while support for the Radical …read more
Source: Voice of America
