Ukrainian elections: prime minister Yatseniuk’s party takes lead
Moscow (AsiaNews) - With 30.06% of the votes counted, the party of the interim prime minister Arseni Yatseniuk - the Popular Front - came out on top in the first parliamentary elections since the Maidan revolt, in Ukraine. 21.71% of voters have chosen the formation of the politician (close to the US, contrary to the truce in the East and dialogue with Russia's Vladimir Putin).
His chances of legitimately becoming prime minister are greatly increased; an unwelcome scenario in Moscow, which claim he is Obama's "puppet". With 21.59% of
the votes going to the Poroshenko block led by the oligarch and president-elect,
who had hoped for a Rada more compact
around his positions that would allow him to
carry on with the necessary reforms and negotiations for peace in the Donbass without too many compromises.
Voting was not held in Crimea, annexed to Russia in
March, or the regions of Donetsk
and Lugansk, controlled
by the separatists. The first
exit pool gave
the victory to the Block, with
23% of the vote (still well below the
expected 30%). Surprisingly,
according to exit the pool, the liberal-moderate Samopomoch
(Self-help) the mayor of Lviv, Andry Sadovy,
were placed in third with 13.2%. Fourth place, again surprisingly, (7.6% according
to exit the pool, 9.6% after the first ballot)
went to Members of the pro-Russian bloc of the Opposition, made up of former members of the Party of Regions of former President Viktor Yanukovych.
The radicals of Olen Lyashko - who submitted a list
of fighters and military officers
- is at 7.52%,
while the passionate heroine of the Orange Revolution, the former Prime
Minister Yulia Timoshenko,
with her Batkivschyna party, has only managed to gain 5.81%.
The anti-Semitic Svoboda
nationalist party, according to preliminary data did not pass the electoral
threshold of 5%, while the exit poll gave
it 6.5%. The Communists also failed to
gain enough votes and are thus out of parliament, for
the first time in the history of
independent Ukraine.
The exit pool assigned Pravi Sektor 2.4%. The result has proven satisfactory to the leader of the neo-Nazi formation which was behind the violent drift that overtook the Maidan protest: If confirmed, the figure shows an increase of consensus since the presidential election in May. The turnout was of 52.42%.
Poroshenko's failure to secure a majority seems certain and he will now have to form alliances with the Rada to manage three areas of crisis: economic, political and security, with the civil war in the east that has already killed 3,700 people. In any case, the new Rada will see a predominance of pro-European forces, which according to analysts will be able to give the head of state a strong mandate for reform and conflict resolution.
Russia's influence is still being felt. According to experts, Moscow would like to see a less pro-American prime minister appointed to move forward in negotiations with Kiev. Representatives of the Bloc and the National Front have already declared that they are ready to form a coalition. Yatsenyuk has already met with the president to discuss what to do. Poroshenko has called the Party of the interim prime minister his chief ally and announced the start of talks to outline a coalition government. These talks, he has said, could go on for ten days. "We have 10 days to create the best government in Ukraine, because no other government would be able to face the challenges that the country is facing today," said Poroshenko.
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