Kiev (AFP) – Western-backed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s fragile ruling coalition faces a major survival test Sunday in combative local elections that exclude the pro-Russian separatist east.Voting offices were closed on Sunday in the key port city of Mariupol, the government’s last bastion in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, an official told AFP.”Polling stations did not open in Mariupol because the ballots were not ready in the voting offices. The election must be delayed because some of the ballots had serious problems,” said Natalia Kachtchi, a member of the local electoral commission.The polls come during a lull in fighting and with worries …read more
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