Ukraine is holding presidential and parliamentary elections at the end of March and the race is too close to call. CNBC has the lowdown on the vote and why it matters to Russia, Europe and the West.
Ukraine is holding presidential and parliamentary elections at the end of March and the race is too close to call.
Opinion polls show the election is too close to call and, as it stands, incumbent President Petro Poroshenko could be usurped by an actor who once played the president of Ukraine in a hit TV show. Yet reforms have stalled in recent months and recent row-backs on anti-corruption measures, a key condition of Western financial aid, has put Poroshenko's government on a collision course with its backers. Ukraine aspires to membership of organizations like NATO and the EU.
Petro Poroshenko: The current president and standing as an independent, there's no guarantee he'll win a second term in office. Poroshenko is pitching himself as the continuity candidate and one that's able to fulfil reforms, but critics say he has failed to tackle corruption. Poroshenko has also presided over the country during continued tension with its neighbor, Russia.
Yuriy Boyko: Boyko is no stranger to politics having served as vice prime minister and former fuel and energy minister. He is running as an independent candidate in the 2019 election but he is associated with the center-left alliance Opposition Platform-For Life. Boyko made the news in 2016 for punching a fellow member of parliament after he was accused of being a"Kremlin agent."Oleh Lyashko: Former journalist Lyashko now leads the Radical Party.
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