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National parties lose out to local candidates in Ukraine’s 2020 municipal elections Ukraine s recent local election cycle took place amid an ongoing coronavirus pandemic. (Konstantin Sazonchik/TASS) Early December saw most of Ukraine’s remaining local election runoff votes take place, giving us a more or less complete picture of the situation across the country. It is now clear that the most striking feature of this local election cycle was the success of incumbent mayors and their locally-based parties. In Lviv, incumbent mayor Andriy Sadoviy won his second round runoff comfortably over European Solidarity’s Oleg Synutka with 62% of the vote. Sadoviy now begins an unprecedented fourth term as mayor of the western Ukrainian city. ....