On the last day of March 1919, presidential elections await Ukraine. The future fate of the country and its people depends on their results, therefore, the attention of experts, politicians, and citizens of different states is riveted to the current election campaign. The media regularly publish expert forecasts: who will become the next president of Ukraine?
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Until February 3, 2019, everyone who wants to run for the post of Ukrainian president will be able to submit documents to the CEC. By January 25, the CEC registered 13 candidates. The current head of the country Petro Poroshenko by this time has not yet registered with the election commission. The documents of the chairman of Batkivshchyna Yulia Tymoshenko, as well as the actor, producer, founder of Kvartal 95 Studio Vladimir Zelensky, are under consideration.
The three candidates named for the head of Ukraine by the beginning of winter are leading in the ranking among potential voters. Political scientists call P. Poroshenko and Y. Tymoshenko the main competitors in the presidential race, but the success of comedian Zelensky is considered unexpected. According to the Social Monitoring Center, at the end of October, the party of the showman “Servant of the People” took the second place (7.6% of the vote), while Tymoshenko gained 12% and went to the first, and P. Poroshenko received only 6, 3%
The January poll of the Rating group shows other data: P. Poroshenko - 11.1%, V. Zelensky - 13.4%, Y. Tymoshenko - 20.8%, the website 24tv.ua reports. According to a survey conducted on January 10-17 by the center of Mikhail Dragomanov, the rating of the leader of the "Fatherland" amounted to 17.4%, the current head of the country - already 17.1%. Professor Sergey Shtepa told the Fifth Channel about this.
Election Race Leaders: Expert Opinions
According to the media, most sociologists and experts are inclined to think that the second round is quite possible at the presidential elections in Ukraine-2019. In particular, P. Poroshenko can get into it, whose strong side is a good party infrastructure and a formed core of the electorate. However, whether he becomes president again will largely depend on current trends in Ukrainian society, the growth and decline of the economy in the country, 24tv.ua newsmakers are sure.
Tymoshenko remains the main competitor of the incumbent president, her election program about the new course of Ukraine is advertised with might and main. In particular, the presidential candidate in case of victory promises to halve the tariffs for "blue fuel" for the population. Meanwhile, political scientists note a certain vagueness of Tymoshenko’s statements. It is predicted that her calls for an early entry into NATO and the European Union will push away the pro-Russian erectorate.
Talk that Zelensky could run for the post of Ukrainian leader began after the release of the film "Servant of the People 2" in 2016, in which the actor played a similar role. A year after the comedy came out, the eponymous party was registered by Ivan Bakanov, a lawyer with Studio Zelensky close to Zelensky.
Interesting results were given by a social survey of the Yaremenko Institute and Social Monitoring: if only artists participated in the presidential race, voters would give 20.7% of the vote to Zelensky and 11%
rock musician Svyatoslav Vakarchuk. However, the ability to control the country of artists should be skeptical, said the ex-president of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk, whose words are quoted by ukraina.ru.
