Reuters, KIEVUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy yesterday appeared likely to become his nation’s first leader since the fall of communism whose party has a parliamentary majority. “Zelenskiy’s party will have a majority in the parliament and it is very likely that it will be a vast majority. That’s a total surprise that they won so many in constituencies,” said Volodymyr Fesenko, an analyst at the Penta think tank. It would be the first time since Ukraine won independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 that most members of parliament belong to one political party. Another new pro-Western party, Voice, fronted by rock star Sviatoslav Vakarchuk, also passed the 5 percent threshold to enter parliament.

Source: Taipei Times July 22, 2019 16:07 UTC