Triumph for Selenskyj, slap in the face for Poroshenko and Déjà-vu with Tymoshenko. The results of the first round of the presidential elections promise to be a fierce fight in front of the run-off election in three weeks.
Volodymyr Selenskyj
Exactly three months Volodymyr Selenskyj, had announced in the new year night, his presidential candidacy needed to come in the first round of the elections among the almost 40 participants. The results of the post-election interviews from the Sunday of three prestigious research institutes in the history of the country is unprecedented.
Accordingly, the television reached a comedian and political Newcomer Selenskyj about 30 percent of the vote and the current President Petro Poroshenko is with 18 percent in the Second. Third place goes to the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, for the approximately 14 percent of the respondents agreed. The first official provisional results of the vote show a very similar picture.
Poroshenko shows happy
Selenskyj, was traded as a favorite, may well election with a victory in the runoff on may 21. April expect. The 41-year-old actor, who appeared in the evening in the company of his wife in his election campaign team in Kiev, was in a great mood, smiled a lot and showed to the journalists politely. With explanations, he held back.
Petro Poroshenko
Also Poroshenko smiled a lot, although it was in view of his results strangely. After the closure of the polling stations of 53-year-old President recalled in his headquarters more to a man whose worst fears have not materialised. Apparently, he had expected seriously to be able to the miss. The only way to explain his joy at the results of the post-election surveys that pop like a slap in the face.
Admits Tymoshenko’s defeat?
Yulia Tymoshenko joined with petrified face in front of the press. The Ex-the Prime Minister was regarded as one of the leading Opposition politicians a few weeks ago as a shoo-in. Now she retires, apparently out of the race, even if she has hinted that the election result may not be recognize. She referred to the opinion of researchers as “corrupt” and referred to its own surveys, according to which it comes with around 20 percent. Many Ukrainians came to your appearance a sense of Déjà-vu. In 2010, when she lost the runoff with a distance of about three per cent against the then opposition, Viktor Yanukovych, refused first to recognize the results. She spoke of forgery.
Julia Tymoshenko
At the time, Tymoshenko said that she was going to go to court, but to call protests on the Maidan, the independence square in Kiev. How you will behave this time, is still open. In front of the building of the Central electoral Commission-looking young people, of which Tymoshenko distanced gathered on election day sporty.
The main results of the first round of the election
A result of the fact that a third of Ukrainians is the Experiment ready to heave a man from the show business to the presidency, has made for years about the politicians of the country is funny. The climax of the TV series “servants of the people”, in the Selenskyj a history teacher, plays the President. To him succeeded, in a large part of the population, especially among young people in the East and the South, to trigger lots of Hype and the desire to be part of it.
Oligarch Ihor Kolomojski
A decisive role of the popular TV channel “1+1” of Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomojski played. Officially, he and Selenskyj are only business partners. However, critics suggest that they have made to prevent the re-election of Poroshenko. Before the elections the stations showed constantly movies and Shows with Selenskyj, in which reality and fiction were mixed.
A further result of the fact that Poroshenko has either overestimated his popularity, or simply risked to run for a second term. The low electoral participation of Ukrainians in the West of the country, their Patriotism, Poroshenko had set for him an unpleasant Surprise. The dissatisfaction with the corruption and the low standard of living prevailed and turned the foreign policy successes of the President, mainly the rapprochement to the EU and its role in the creation of a Moscow-independent Orthodox country Church in the Background.
What is to be expected in the runoff?
Poroshenko said he had heard the people who would have voted for his opponent. In view of the risk, the time could be turned back, he called to unity. Judging from his speech on election night, he wants to turn the runoff election into a Referendum on independence and the way of Ukraine in NATO and the EU. According to the Motto: Without me, the Ukraine is thrown back and the “Aggressor” – the Ukrainian authorities according to which Russia is a triumph. According to observers, this rhetoric Poroshenko but brought no victory in the first round of the election. For a breakthrough, he will have to the Ukrainians still offer something different.
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Even before the closure of the polling stations has already been speculation about a possible Alliance between Selenskyj and Tymoshenko. By itself this was neither confirmed nor denied. Tymoshenko said simply, before the end of the counting of the votes will result in no calls.
Even before the first round of the election loss has been disseminated Material about the candidates. In social networks, especially Selenskyj was dragged through the Mud and in the television Poroshenko. He said that he was going to sue Kolomojskis station for a report that Poroshenko is allegedly for the death of his brother.
The battle for the victory in the runoff election promises to be fierce. But even after that, you will have to continue with all the candidates expect, including Tymoshenko. In the autumn parliamentary elections will be held in the Ukraine, which are formally more important than the presidential elections. Since the change of power in 2014, the Constitution is that the government Makes more than the President has. All the losers of the presidential election have thus in six months, a Chance for revenge.