Yatsenyuk’s “People’s Front” left behind Poroshenko’s bloc
Moscow – Kyiv, October 27 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Shtamm) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's People's Front party is leading in the Verkhovna Rada elections after counting 22,63% of the votes. The Petro Poroshenko Bloc is in second place, trailing Yatsenyuk's party slightly, RBC reported this morning , citing the Ukrainian Central Election Commission.
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According to the Central Election Commission, 21,71% of voters voted for the Popular Front. 21,62% of voters cast their votes for the Poroshenko Bloc. At the same time, all exit polls unanimously gave victory to the Poroshenko Bloc, which, according to polls, was ahead of the Popular Front by several percentage points.
Another discrepancy between exit polls and actual results is the number of votes received by Oleg Tyagnibok’s Svoboda party. According to exit polls, the party passed the five percent threshold and won seats in the Verkhovna Rada. However, according to the Central Election Commission, after counting 22,63%, Svoboda gains 4,58%.
In addition to the “People's Front” and the “Poroshenko Bloc”, according to the interim results of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine, the parties “Self-Help” of Lviv Mayor Andrei Sadovoy (10,49%), the Opposition Bloc (9,57%), and the Radical Party of Oleg Lyashko (7,59 .5,9%) and “Fatherland” (XNUMX%).
Voter turnout in the elections, according to the Central Election Commission, was 52,42%.
Let us recall that earlier Kiev political scientist Dmitry Dzhangirov in an interview with RG suggested that the strengthening of Yatsenyuk is a victory of the “American” line over Poroshenko’s “European” line in Ukrainian politics. And the United States, unlike Europe, which is committed to a speedy truce, is determined to continue the war
Yatsenyuk's "People's Front" has left Poroshenko's bloc behind.