Preliminary results from Sunday’s local elections in Ukraine indicate growing political diversity, say analysts, as no clear winners emerged.
Opinion polls before the elections projected that Solidarity, the ruling bloc of President Petro Poroshenko, would suffer big defeats.
Poroshenko’s confidence rating had dropped to 32 percent, from 69 percent a year ago, while Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s fell even lower to 20 percent. Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front party decided not to field any candidates at all.
But while the Poroshenko bloc lost mayoral and council seats in the key cities of Kharkiv and Odessa, it gained seats in a majority of …read more
Source: Voice of America
