A total of 30.22% of voters supported presidential candidate / actor / TV presenter, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, 15.92% incumbent president, Petro Poroshenko, and 13.39% - Chairperson of the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Association party, Yuliya Tymoshenko, after 99.07% of e-reports on voting results counted.

This follows from the data posted on the website of the Central Election Commission, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

At the same time, 11.68% of voters supported Co-Chair of the Opposition Platform - For Life parliamentary interfactional association, Yurii Boiko.

6.03% - Presidential candidate / former chairperson of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU; 2003-2005), Ihor Smeshko.

5.48% - Chairperson of the Radical Party faction at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Oleh Liashko.

1.63% - former chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Ruslan Koshulynskyi

The other candidates received less than 1% of votes.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the turnout of voters at the presidential election on March 31 was 63.52%.

Officially, the voting results must be set before April 10 inclusively.

If none of the candidates gain more than 50%, then the second round of election should be scheduled for April 21. </s> KIEV (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 22nd July, 2019) Five Ukrainian political parties collect enough vote in snap parliamentary elections to enter Ukraine's legislature, the Verkhovna Rada, the latest exit polls suggested on Sunday.

As of 8 p.m. Moscow time (17:00 GMT), exit polls, sponsored by the Ukraine 112 broadcaster, suggest that five parties make it beyond the 5 percent threshold to win parliament seats. The Servant of the People party of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy leads the vote with 43.5 percent. Opposition Platform - For Life comes second with 12.5 percent, followed by former President Petro Poroshenko's European Solidarity party with 8.7 percent. Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's Fatherland gathers 8.

1 percent of the vote, and the Voice party of Svyatoslav Vakarchuk has 6.6 percent.

The Ukrainian parliament has 450 seats, of which 225 will be taken through party lists and the other 225 by a majority vote in single-mandate electoral districts. The minimum vote threshold to win a seat is 5 percent.

The election was initially scheduled to be held in October. On May 17, the ruling coalition broke down after the People's Front party announced its decision to leave. Parties had 30 days to form a new coalition, as required by law, but failed to meet the deadline. In light of these developments, Zelenskyy dissolved the legislature and called a snap election. </s> President Volodymyr Zelenskyi has agreed with chairpersons of the Verkhovna Rada factions on scheduling the snap parliamentary election for July 21.

Chairperson of the Radical Party faction at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Oleh Liashko, has said this to the press, the Ukrainian News Agency reports.

The leader of the Radical Party noted that the Ukrainian Parliament would hold an extraordinary meeting to amend the election legislation.

First deputy chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada, Iryna Heraschenko, has warned against a too rapid amendment of the election legislation and told about absence of constitutional reasons for disbandment of the Verkhovna Rada.

She said that chairperson of the Central Election Commission, Tetiana Slipachuk, was also present at the consultations between President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and heads of the parliamentary factions.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on Monday, Zelenskyi said he would disband the Verkhovna Rada. </s> The Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Association parliamentary faction has welcomed disbandment of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by President Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

Deputy Chairperson of the Batkivschyna parliamentary faction, Serhii Sobolev, said this on the sidelines of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, during his inauguration speech, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi informed he was disbanding the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of VIII convocation. </s> President Volodymyr Zelenskyi is calling on the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to immediately adopt the Election Code of Ukraine, the law on termination of parliamentary immunity and reinstate criminal responsibility for unlawful enrichment.

He said this in his inauguration speech at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

He also called on the MPs to dismiss Chairperson of the Security Service of Ukraine, Vasyl Hrytsak; Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Yurii Lutsenko; and Minister of Defense, Stepan Poltorak.

Zelenskyi said the Verkhovna Rada had two months to do that.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on Monday, May 20, Zelenskyi became the sixth President of Ukraine. </s> The result of the elections to the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, shows that the Ukrainians are tired of the policy of intimidation and terror carried out by the previous Kiev authorities, Moscow will assess the new Ukrainian authorities by their practical steps

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 22nd July, 2019) The result of the elections to the Ukrainian parliament , the Verkhovna Rada, shows that the Ukrainians are tired of the policy of intimidation and terror carried out by the previous Kiev authorities, Moscow will assess the new Ukrainian authorities by their practical steps.

"It is important to note that the nationalist forces did not receive broad support from the Ukrainian population. The European Solidarity led by [former president] Petro Poroshenko demonstrated quite modest results. The group of extremists from the Svoboda and other radical organizations is not going to parliament at all," the ministry said in a commentary to the preliminary outcome of the Sunday snap general election in Ukraine.

"All this indicates that the Ukrainians are tired of the policy of intimidation and terror carried out by previous authorities. We can, apparently, call the past vote 'a vote of hope'," the ministry said.

The ministry added that Moscow would continue to closely monitor the situation in Ukraine after the Verkhovna Rada election, and "would assess the new Ukrainian authorities by their practical actions." </s> President Volodymyr Zelenskyy does not want the new prime minister to be the leader of the Verkhovna Rada faction or the former head of government.

He told this to journalists, Ukrainian News Agency report.

Zelenskyy noted that he was already holding consultations on the candidacy of the prime minister.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on Sunday, July 21, voting in parliamentary election began in Ukraine.

Voting will last until 08:00 p.m. </s> KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The Latest on Ukraine's politics (all times local):

Ukraine's new president has signed a decree dissolving the parliament and calling a snap election in two months.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced his intention to disband the legislature minutes after being sworn in Monday. His decree dissolving the Verkhovna Rada and setting early elections for July 21 was posted on the presidential website Tuesday.

The current parliament is dominated by allies of former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, and Zelenskiy hopes to ride the wave of his electoral success to get his supporters into parliament.

An adviser to the new Ukrainian president says that he will sign a decree formally dissolving the parliament and calling snap elections within days.

Andriy Bohdan, adviser to Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said in televised remarks Tuesday that the president would send the decree in the coming days. He said he hopes that parliament would vote for changes to the electoral law before it is disbanded.

Moments after he was sworn into office, Zelenskiy dropped a bombshell when he said he is dissolving the parliament, dominated by allies of the former Ukrainian president. Zelenskiy sat down with political leaders Tuesday morning to discuss the dissolution.

Bohdan said the meeting with the lawmakers showed that they would be willing to adopt the electoral changes Zelenskiy has proposed. </s> Ukraine’s new president has ordered the dissolution of the nation’s parliament and called a snap election in two months.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a 41-year-old comedian who won 73% of the vote last month, announced his intention to disband parliament in his inauguration speech on Monday, saying that current MPs are focused on self-enrichment and lack public trust.

He quickly fulfilled the promise in Tuesday’s decree that set the parliamentary election for July 21.

The election to the Verkhovna Rada was originally scheduled for October 27, a situation that would have put Mr Zelenskiy in a position where he would face a parliament dominated by supporters of former president Petro Poroshenko and would be unable to pursue his agenda for months.

Mr Zelenskiy, who has become famous for playing the role of a Ukrainian president in a popular TV sitcom, is gambling that his popularity will allow his party to make a successful showing in the parliamentary vote.

“Zelenskiy is trying to act as quickly as possible, because he realises that voters’ excitement will cool down in half a year,” said Volodymyr Fesenko, head of the Kiev-based independent think-tank Penta.

His foes in parliament sought to push back his inauguration past the May 27 deadline by which the parliament can be dissolved, but eventually had to submit to public pressure.

Mr Zelenskiy’s landslide victory reflected Ukrainians’ exasperation with the country’s economic woes and rampant official corruption and the nation’s political elite.

He has already asked several top ministers to step down, but he will likely have trouble getting their successors appointed by the current parliament.

In his inaugural speech, Mr Zelenskiy said that the main goal for the presidency is to bring peace to eastern Ukraine, where government troops have been fighting Russia-backed separatists for five years in a conflict that has left at least 13,000 dead.
Ukrainian citizens vote for the new members of the Verkhovna Rada, following its dissolution by President Volodymyr Zelensky in May.