Ukraine’s 2019 presidential and parliamentary elections are the most important since the country became independent nearly three decades ago. If next year’s elections follow those held in 2014 when five pro-reform political forces won a constitutional majority, Ukraine’s European integration and withdrawal from the Russian world will be assured by the next election cycle in 2024.
2019 Presidential Election
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From left, Yulia Tymoshenko, Batkivshchyna Party leader and ex-prime minister of Ukraine; Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko; and Okean Elzy frontman Syatoslav Vakarchuk, a popular singer who is considered by many as a possible political rival of both Tymoshenko and Poroshenko during the 2019 presidential elections.