With counting still ongoing seven political parties are expected to receive seats in Ukraine’s next parliament, with President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s parties taking the top two spots, cementing the current government’s rule.
Poroshenko’s bloc gained 23% of the vote, while Yatsenyuk got just over 21%. They have promised a broad coalition, and are likely to include at least the pro-EU Self-Help Party, and potentially others.
The Radical Party and the Svoboda Party, both far-right blocs, are set to enter parliament and could find themselves in the coalition as well. Former Premier Yulia Tymoshenko’s Fatherland Party came in seventh place, and whether it will join the ruling bloc is unclear.
The only sure-fire opposition party is the aptly named Opposition Bloc, which is made up of the remnants of the former ruling party, ousted in protests earlier this year. The bloc gained about 8% of the vote, far less than the last election, but more than they were projected in pre-vote polls.
The Opposition Bloc was clearly not going to replicate the Party of Regions’ success, as their regional strongholds were under-represented in the current vote, with Luhansk and Donetsk, rebel-held Oblasts, the two lowest in voter turnout. The other region the party did well last time, the Crimean Peninsula, succeeded from Ukraine earlier in the year, and is now part of the Russian Federation. Though Ukraine did not recognize Crimea’s succession, they also did not let Crimeans vote.
Ukraine — A dictator’s democracy
Which begs the question, the militant fascist coup and their shelling of civilians in East Ukraine, is this the work of a few radicals or is it the will of a fascist public with a dictator mentality?
For this election tells me that the voters of Ukraine have no desire for anything that resembles democracy.
Russophobes parties are entering in the parlement. We will see how constructive they are for the country.Tilll now they only contibuted to war in Donbass and burning some othodox churches.Now it is time to stabilise the economy.
"Seceded", "secession".
A massive slap in the face for Putin and entirely in accordance with what I've been hearing from my friend in Kharkov. Clearly, there is not, and never was, a "rebellion" in eastern Ukraine. By refusing to allow people to vote in the small enclave they still control, Putin's fake "rebels" shot themselves in the foot. They showed that are afraid of a free vote of the people. They claim that they organise a vote in the enclave in December. I suppose that, as in Crimea, 97% of the people will vote for immediate annexation to Russia with a voter turnout of 125%!
You have consistently misread, misunderstood, or misrepresented the situation in Ukraine. If you had looked at the link describing voter turnout you would have seen it as about 30% on average, and lower than that in the east regions. That's hardly a mandate or reflection of popular will. During the rebellion – which is what it was – people voted with their feet, as over 800,000 persons sought refuge from the fighting and indiscriminate bombing in Russia (not in other areas of Ukraine). This hardly makes sense if what was happening was a "fake" rebellion generated by Putin.