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Pro-West bloc leads in Ukraine vote
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Oct 01, 2007 10:51pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Oct 01, 2007 10:00pm |
| Description | Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's 'Orange' camp appears headed for a narrow victory in parliamentary elections, exit polls show.
By David Holley, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 1, 2007
KIEV, Ukraine — Parties favoring a pro-Western foreign policy and closer ties with the European Union appeared headed for a narrow victory in parliamentary elections, according to exit polls.
Sunday's balloting pitted against each other the same two sides that faced off in 2004 in Ukraine's Orange Revolution, when weeks of street protests forced a repetition of a presidential runoff election.
Yulia Tymoshenko, 46, the most fiery leader of those protests, seemed headed early today toward becoming prime minister again.
With about 25% of ballots counted, parties backing Tymoshenko had 49% of the vote compared with 35% for parties backing Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich and 4% for the bloc of centrist former parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn. |
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