Pro-Western blocs ‘win Ukraine poll’
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Pro-Western parties will predominate over Ukraine’s parliament after the first elections to the body since February’s revolution, exit polls suggest. As votes are counted, President Petro Poroshenko’s bloc is expected win the most, with PM Arseny Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front party a close second.
Poroshenko called an early poll in a bid to set Ukraine on a new path after the ousting of pro-Russian leaders. About 3m people in two eastern regions ravaged by conflict did not vote, BBC reports. Pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions plan to hold their own polls next month.
On the other hand, according to PRO TV Kishinev, while in Cern?u?i on Sunday, President Poroshenko delivered his speech in Romanian, as many of North Bukovina’s inhabitants are of Romanian origins. The incumbent Ukrainian President himself was born in Bolgrad, South Bessarabia (very close to the Republic of Moldova border), where he actually learnt Romanian language.
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