Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko spent election day with troops in the East.
From the Guardian Liberty Voice:
Ukrainian voters continue to look west, choosing to elect a new parliament that gives President Petro Poroshenko the opportunity to form a government committed to continuing the process of looking westward, as much of the country seeks to adopt European standards and values. Exit polling on Sunday indicated that Poroshenko will be shed of the former Party of Regions dominated parliament of ousted ex-president Viktor Yanukovich.
Ukrainian voters also rejected the idea of a majority of hard-line nationalist leaders, preferring instead to allow those minorities to have a place in parliament, ut without control. Polling data indicates that the People’s Front party of Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk, a Poroshenko ally, also did well in the voting. Ukraine’s parliament is called the Verkhovna Rada, or Rada for short, a single-house legislative body with 450 seats.
Most of the three million residents living in the contested Eastern republics claimed by pro-Russian rebels were not allowed the opportunity to vote.
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As preliminary numbers began to emerge, President Poroshenko made a statement thanking Ukrainians for participating in the election, saying that he had asked citizens to vote for a democratic, pro-Ukrainian, reform-minded and pro-European majority. He thanked voters for hearing him and supporting his call.
Poroshenko had flown by helicopter to the town of Kramatorsk, a city recently liberated from pro-Russian rebels. He inspected two polling stations after first visiting fortified installations where members of the Ukrainian army are still fighting to liberate Ukrainian citizens in the area.
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