The final results of the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary elections have still not been declared, but the picture is already clear: President Volodymyr Zelensky’s party, Servant of the People, has received 56 per cent of all mandates, the pro-Russian Opposition Platform 10 per cent, former president Poroshenko’s party European Solidarity and Yulia Tymoshenko’s Batkivschyna party both received almost 6 per cent while the new liberal party Holos, led by rock star Vakarchuk, mustered 4.5 per cent. The turnout was close to 50 per cent. What will the new parliament look like?
2019 Parliamentary Election
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A local resident casts her vote into a mobile ballot box in a house during a parliamentary election in the village of Pershe Travnya (First May) in Kyiv oblat on July 21, 2019.
