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Ukraine: Prez Volodymyr Zelenskyy's party leads in parliamentary election

<span style="color: #222222;">In Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's party is leading in the parliamentary election, according to preliminary results released by the electoral body. <br />''<br />''The Central Election Commission said Servant of the People has won 43.10 per cent of the vote as 90.89 per cent of ballots are counted so far.<br />''<br />'' The Opposition Platform – For Life party comes second with 12.94 per cent of votes, followed by former President Petro Poroshenko's European Solidarity with 8.18 per cent.<br />''<br />'' Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's Fatherland party also got 8.18 per cent of vote and rock musician Svyatoslav Vakarchuk's the Voice party won 5.92 per cent of vote<br />''. <br />''The President's party said it is on course to win about 250 of parliament's 450 seats.<br />''<br />''It will also be the best result by any party in Ukraine's post-1991 history.<br />''<br />''On Sunday, only 424 seats in the parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, were contested in the snap elections. Those seats not included represent the war-torn Donbas region and Crimea.</span><br />

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