(VOVworld) – People across Ukraine will cast their ballot on Sunday for a presidential election before schedule, which aims to solve the prolonged political crisis for half of a year. Polling stations will open at 8 am local time and around 36 million voters will cast their ballots to choose their country’s leader, according to Ukrainian Central Electoral Commission. Analysts said that, although there are 22 candidates running for the post, this seems to be a competition between Peter Poroshenko of Udar Party, and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. In case there are no candidate wining more than 50% of the vote, the two candidates with highest number of votes will enter a second round scheduled for June 15th.
Petro Poroshenko, the billionaire owner of Ukrainian chocolate manufacture Roshen and frontrunner in Ukraine's presidential election. Photo: AFP
Recent pubic surveys show that Poroshenko is receiving huge support from voters and may win in the first round of elections. Voters hope that Poroshenko, who used to be Foreign Minister and Minister of Finance under President Yanukovich’s administration, Poroshenko is expected to heal the divisions between the east and west of Ukraine as he pledged to soon address the country’s political crisis with Russia during his electoral campaign.
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