Ukraine Presidential Election: The ‘Chocolate King’ vs The ‘Gas Princess’ -- Euronews
Both of the main candidates for May’s presidential election in Ukraine have pro-Western ties.
Former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was at the forefront of the country’s pro-democracy Orange Revolution.
Her main rival now that boxer Vitaly Klitschko has pulled out is billionaire chocolate baron Petro Poroshenko. Klitschko and his Udar party are throwing all their weight behind Poroshenko and urging their supporters to do the same.
As well as promising to steer Ukraine away from Russia and towards Europe, Poroshenko also said: “The priorities are to preserve sovereignty and territorial integrity. We will also have to work on the country’s unity.”
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Update: Ukraine crisis: Klitschko pulls out of presidential election -- BBC
My Comment: Petro Poroshenko is favored to win. The candidate from former president Victor Yanukovych’s Party of the Regions is Mykhaylo Dobkin (a pro-Russian candidate) .... but he is under "house arrest" as well as being shut out from the media and any government support for his party's election campaign .... this (as one can imagine) is becoming a very serious sore point in the Russian dominated part of eastern Ukraine.
My first nomination for Understatement of the Year "We will also have to work on the country’s unity.”!
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