The Zelenski Party Wins the Legislative Elections of …

According to polls, the party headed by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski (Servant of the People) swept the early general elections on Sunday. Depending on the numbers, your group could reach an absolute majority if it manages to combine with other spaces.

The Servant of the People would have obtained between 42.7% and 44.7% of the votes, which places the party of Zelenski on the threshold of the absolute majority in the Verkhovna Rada (parliament). The second most voted party would be the pro-Russian opposition platform for life, which would get between 12 and 13% of the votes, while European Solidarity of the former president Petró Poroshenko would be d & # 39; about 8.5%. He would also have access to the parliament of the Batkivschina of the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko with about 7.5% of the intention to vote.

The big surprise of the day is the Golos match of the rock musician Sviatoslav Vakarchuk, who would have exceeded the minimum barrier of 5% of the votes marked by a law. In the best of scenarios for Zelensky, his party and Vakarchuk, with whom he has been flirting for a few weeks, they would add more than half of the votes and could form a government without resorting to Timoshenko, who aspires to lead.

In his first statements after the close of the elections, the Ukrainian president said his priority was to end the war with the separatists in the east of the country and to fight against corruption. "We will not let the Ukrainians down, you know our main priorities, which are the same as for all Ukrainians: the end of the war, the return of prisoners and the victory over corruption," said Zelenski.

Now the president can easily defeat the resistance of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament), which declared itself almost in default when Zelenski attempted to dissolve the chamber after baduming the presidency in May. In the expectation of official and final results, the president must agree to reach the absolute majority in the Rada, an institution that elects the prime minister. The aforementioned alliance with the Vakarchuk party is one of the clearest options.

Nearly thirty million Ukrainians went to the polls Sunday for the third time in less than four months after the two presidential rounds. The accumulation of elections has reduced participation.

As soon as the ballot boxes were known, Zelenski appeared in front of the media at his party's headquarters and insisted, as he had already done in this morning's vote, that the prime minister should be a technocrat, a " Guru "of the economy. and not an old school politician like Tymoshenko.

In addition, he invited Vakarchuk to hold consultations to form a government and stated that one of the first proposals he would make to Parliament was the adoption of a law that would would allow the president to challenge. For its part, Vakarchuk said that the changes in Ukraine must begin in Rada, where many forces are preventing the adoption of anti-corruption laws and peace plans for the Donbas, eastern region of Ukraine that has experienced armed clashes in recent years. .

For the new president, it's a dazzling victory because when he badumed that he had no MP, his party "being born" with the presidential elections last May. Given the obvious institutional weakness and the strong "anti-political" rhetoric that characterizes him and allows him to confront the already established parties, Zelenski announced the anticipation of the legislative elections of the same day as his Presidential jury at the Verkhovna Rada.