Presidential election Ukraine
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Just over a week after the presidential elections in Ukraine, the Central Electoral Commission in Kiev officially declared Volodymyr Selenskyj the winner. The 41-year-old actor came to about 73 percent of the vote, as election leader Tatjana Slipachuk announced in the announcement of the official final result. After valid deadlines Selenskyj must now be sworn within 30 days: no later than 2 June.
But if he wants to dissolve parliament, the time is running out: Only if Selenskyj is sworn in before May 27, he can call early elections. Because, according to the Constitution, Parliament can not be dissolved later than six months before the end of his term of office. The parliamentarians were sworn in on 27 November 2014. Selenskyj therefore criticized the electoral authorities for the delay.
He wants to call early elections to change the balance of power in parliament, which is dominated by supporters of outgoing President Petro Poroshenko.
Poroshenko also dissolved the parliament
Poroshenko had done the same after his election in 2014. He said at the time that this measure was "part of his peace plan". It was also one of his election promises.
Selensky represents a pro-Western course of the country. He scored the best result in the history of the presidential election of the EU aspiring country.
The most successful as a presidential actor in a comedy series Selenskyj is also the youngest president in the history of the ex-Soviet republic. It accounted for around 13.5 million votes.
Poroshenko receives 24 percent
Incumbent Poroshenko was 24 percent of the vote or 4.5 million valid ballots according to the official final result. There were also many invalid ballots.
A total of 30 million voters were called on April 21 to elect a new president. Voter turnout was 61 percent or 18.5 million people. After his defeat, Poroshenko announced that he would be back in five years' time at the next vote.