Poroshenko wins presidential Elections in Ukraine

The businessman Petro Poroshenko, 48, is the winner of the presidential elections in Ukraine, far ahead of other candidates. With 54.5% of the votes counted, obtained 53.7 % of the vote. Include the former Prime Minister, Yulia Timoshenko, in second place with 13.07%. It appears that, having neatly overcome the barrier of 50%, a runoff election will not be necessary for Ukraine to have a new and legitimate president.

In a hearing held half an hour after the elections conclude, Poroshenko said that thousands of Crimean Tatars and hundreds of thousands of people in the eastern regions of the state had also voted in the elections, despite the difficulties and dangers to his life. “We can say firmly and convincingly voted throughout Ukraine and this is the choice of all Ukraine,” he said. Poroshenko, which some call the ” Chocolate King ” for their business activities as a major producer of chocolates, announced that the first steps will be used to ” end the war and chaos ” and bring peace to Ukraine. He said he will defend the interests and safety of the inhabitants of the eastern regions of the country and give priority to the security and defense. He also said that Ukraine has supported the unitary state and its European future. “85% of Ukrainians has supported the European path for Ukraine,” he said, noting that the work of his administration will be governed by the pro-European idea.

Third, unexpectedly, the radical Oleg Liashko qualified, with 8.46%; fourth, the former Minister of Defense Anatoly Gritsenko, with 5.47 %, followed by Sergey Tigipko, with 5.25%. The ultra-nationalist and rightist candidates Tiagnibok and Dimitri Oleg Yarosh, respectively, in positions of tail twenty suitors finally clashed in the arena. Voter turnout varied by region. The highest was in the western regions of the country, as Lvov, Ivano Franko and Transcarpathia, where four in the afternoon had exceeded 52%. Overall, at that time had voted 45% of the census. In Donetsk province, armed groups proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk prevented voting in many localities.

Poroshenko hails from Odessa region, speaks English and Romanian, and studied international relations and economics at Kiev. He has been a deputy in the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament), Secretary of the Security Council of Ukraine (February to September 2005) and chairman of the board of the National Bank of Ukraine from 2007 to 2012, as well as Foreign Minister from 2008 to 2010 and Minister of economic Development and Trade, March- November 2012. Gentle in form, but resolved in the content, Poroshenko is seen by many of his countrymen as the person who can harness the economic and political measures to bring the country out of crisis and assert national interests against Russia effectively and firmly, but without fanfare.

During the last half year, Poroshenko has also shown his personal physical courage to ride a bulldozer to stop protesters who tried to take by assault the headquarters of the Presidential Administration in the fall and then, in March, to go to Simferopol, the capital of Crimea, a failed meeting with local authorities and to prevent secession attempt. Poroshenko announced that his first visit as president will be to Donbas, the mining and industrial region of eastern Ukraine that is stirred by a wave of separatism supported from Russia.

In regards to Yulia Timoshenko, the general opinion is that after your stay at the prison where she was held to be Viktor Yanukovych president, former Prime Minister has failed to reconnect with the political reality that their program was vague and demagogic. In Kiev, the capital, mayoral election, in which boxing champion Vitali Klitschko confirmed his favorite position was also held. Klitschko and Poroshenko part of the same team and both shared the joy of victory in his election headquarters in the offices of the Arsenal, the museum of modern art in Kiev.

In the capital, the turnout was massive in schools visited by this correspondent in different parts of Kiev, on the left bank of the Dnieper, and Sviatoshin neighborhood, near the offices of the Antonov aircraft manufacturing. Most citizens questioned confirmed their intention to vote for Poroshenko. “It’s an oligarch but employs thousands of people,” said Galina, a retired than in the past had voted for the Communist leader Petro Simonenko, who withdrew from the campaign.

Kiev is a city of alluvium where people converge from all over the country. Among voters who spoke to this correspondent Yelena, professor of Ukrainian literature was born Slaviansk. Elena, 36, studied philology at that Ukrainian city of Donetsk region, which today is one of the hardest outbreaks of war, and asserts ” the Ukrainian spoken in the villages of the province is so clean and as authentic as that of other regions. ” The teacher said he was considering moving to Kiev to his mother, the war forced to take refuge in a basement intermittently. Among those who voted in Kiev there were people coming from Crimea and east.

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