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Ukraine’s elections to have no major effect on overall situation

ALEXANDROVA Lyudmila 
Ukraine’s parliamentary elections due on Sunday will cause little effect, if at all, on the overall crisis settlement process in the country

MOSCOW, October 24. /TASS/. Ukraine’s parliamentary elections due on Sunday will be of importance mostly for Ukraine’s internal political affairs but will cause little effect, if at all, on the overall crisis settlement process in the country and around it, or on Kiev’s relations with Russia, analysts say.

The Ukrainians will be electing Verkhovna Rada members in the whole of the country’s territory but for the territories of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics, with their electorate totalling several million. Thirty seats will be reserved for both areas and also for Crimea and Sevastopol, which Kiev still regards as Ukrainian land.

The likely winner is known in advance: the bloc of the incumbent president, Petro Poroshenko. Whether Poroshenko will fail to gain full control of parliament or have to look for a coalition partner or, possibly, cede the post of the prime minister to a competitor is anyone’s guess.

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