president volodymyr selenski called the snap elections after being sworn into office in may he's hoping this vote will consolidate his power and give him a strong mandate to carry out reforms the former t.v. actor was elected on promises of tackling corruption and shaking up ukraine's political system but so far progress has been slow. connelly is in kiev and joins us now for more nic president zelinsky brought forward the timing of these elections hoping voters will hand his party more power will that gamble pay all. kid off new well if the polls it's believed it will all the latest polls are going to selection showed his party servant of the people his new policy picking up somewhere around $45.00 or even more percent of the vote although coming just short of absolute majority so it looks like they will have to form a coalition to get their laws through parliament but this really is unheard of no