Ukraine's Parliamentary elections will cause major change

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 08 Jun 2019 by Alex Teddy

Ukraine's Rada (Parliament) is scheduled for an election on July 21. The polls conducted on June 3 show that the Rada's composition is due to change radically. A new political party called Servant of the People is on 48%. This is President Zelensky's party. If this party does as well as polls suggest it might have a majority in the Rada which no party has ever achieved. At present Servant of the People has no one in the Rada. Opposition Platform is rated at 11%. European Solidarity is rated at 8%. This is Poroshenko's party and he is considering running for the Rada. His party's name is redolent of the Polish opposition labor union in the 1980s. Fatherland stands at 7% in the polls. This is the party of former PM Yulia Tymoshenko. Groysman - who is stepping down as Prime Minister - has a party called Ukrainian Strategy. It is rated at a measly 1%. Polls used to be notoriously unreliable in Ukraine, However, this presidential election showed them to be accurate. Things are changing.

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