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After the Central Election Commission (CEC) has processed 70.05 percent of electronic voting reports from polling places, the People's Front has 21.8 percent of votes cast in the snap parliamentary election in Ukraine on October 26, while the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko has 21.46 percent.

The Samopomich Union received 11.12 percent of the votes, the Opposition Bloc got 9.75 percent, Oleh Liashko’s Radical Party 7.39 percent, and the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Union 5.66 percent, according to the information board at the CEC’s press center.

Other parties haven’t managed to clear a 5 percent hurdle for entering the parliament with the above-mentioned number of the voting reports processed.

The Svoboda Party has almost neared the 5 percent threshold, having scored 4.72 percent of the votes at the moment.