Taken place you can see the data on the screen as we process preliminary results to put it in 3 months it will show in reality we may be looking at a situation when for the 1st time in the history of independent ukraine we ll have one party in the parliament which will be able to make all the decisions and will have the 2 $126.00 votes to support all their legislative initiatives. are going to shoot in the senate or voters in ukraine went to the ballot box yesterday and made history for the 1st time parliament will be led by one party the party of the new president of a lot of years olinsky the comedian turned president who came to power with the promise of fighting corruption a mandate for change that is that much stronger tonight thanks to yesterday s parliamentary elections so let s take this story now to our correspondent nick connelly he is on the story in the ukrainian capital kiev force good evening to you nic so the president he must be laughing all the way to the parliament bu
Preliminary results. which it will show in reality we may be looking at a situation when for the 1st time in the history of independent ukraine we ll have one party in the parliament which will be able to make all the decisions and will have the 226 votes to support all day legislative initiatives. are going to shoot in the senate or voters in ukraine went to the ballot box yesterday and made history for the 1st time parliament will be led by one party the party of the new president a blow to me as alinsky the comedian turned president who came to power with the promise of fighting corruption a mandate for change that is that much stronger tonight thanks to yesterday s parliamentary elections so let s take this story now to our correspondent nick connelly he is on the story in the ukrainian capital kiev force good evening to you nic so the president he must be laughing all the way to the parliament building his party controls parliament this should make it very easy for him i would thi
Party controls parliament this should make it very easy for him i would think to get legislation passed to keep his current campaign promises will it. well brant these are really uncharted waters for ukraine politics as you mentioned this is a 1st the ukrainian politics the 1st ukrainian president to have an absolute majority in parliament his strategy of pulling those elections forward really banking that honeymoon he had with the voters really seems to have paid off not only that but also he s a rule new p.c. boards palm and not one of his new members of parliament has sat in parliament before you ve got a t.v. chef there and a limb pick wrestler a fellow comedian so it s all expected that these people will be fairly pliable and easy to be disciplined compared to political veterans that have been in ukraine s parliament up till now what would you say nick was the parliament election result
Oas see they say that the election this weekend was fair and free however they accuse incumbent m.p. s of trying to buy votes in order to keep their seats as they ve been anything said about that by the president today and i mean this really speaks to how big the problem of corruption in ukraine really years doesn t. there s no getting around the fact that ukraine routinely comes at the bottom of european corruption rankings only russia routinely really doing worse i think the positive takeaway from today is that the old timers trying those tricks vote buying they didn t get away with it they were swept away by this tide of political newcomers that has brought into parliament i think the real test. mettle and his real determination to fight corruption will be how he deals with. the channels made him a star in the 1st place and has been really instrumental with his media resources in helping his political rise to power. used to own ukraine s biggest bank but it
Parliamentary elections so let s take this story now to our correspondent nick connelly he is on the story in the ukrainian capital kiev force good evening to you nic so the president he must be laughing all the way to the parliament building his party controls parliament this should make it very easy for him i would think to to get legislation passed to keep his campaign promises will it. well brant these are really uncharted waters for ukraine politics as you mentioned this is the 1st the ukrainian politics the 1st ukrainian president to have an absolute majority in parliament his strategy of pulling those elections forward really banking that honeymoon he had with the voters really seems to have paid off not only that but also he s a rule new p.c. boards palm and not one of his new members of parliament has sat in parliament before you ve got a t.v.