Exit polls: presidential party wins the parliament

UKRAINE - In Brief 21 Jul 2019 by Dmytro Boyarchuk

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Presidential party Servant of the People got 43.9% of support according to exit-polls which is near 126 MP seats out of 225 seats on the party lists. On FPTPs we have reports from the fields that candidates from presidential party have an overwhelming majority. Some journalists estimated that Servant of the People candidates take at least 70 seats on FPTPs.Holos of rock singer Svyatoslav Vakarchuk got much less than expected (only 6.3%) which gives them 18 seats at the parliament. Leader of Servant of the People Dmytro Razumkov claimed previously that he is inclined to build coalition with Holos. But if provisional reports from the field on FPTP voting is true - Servant of the People will be able to form coalition by themselves recruiting a dozen of independent FPTPs. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that he sees a professional economist in the seat of the Prime-Minister and he already has consultations with potential candidates. No clear view who that person might be (few names are circulating around). But Zelenskiy mentioned that the person should not be a politician.