Both the pro-western ruling and opposition part are expected to win most of the votes in in Ukraine’s parliamentary elections reports the BBC.
President Petro Portoshenko’s party and Arseniy Yatseniuk’s opposition party are tied on votes with half the counting completed.
The US President, commended the Ukrainian elections as “an important milestone in Ukarine’s democratic development.”
Portosheko and Yatseniuyk have already begun power sharing talks, with the president announcing that he expected to form a unity government within weeks.
“The main task is to quickly form a pro-European coalition for carrying out agreements with the EU,” said the opposition leader. Yatseniuk. at a meeting with international election observers.
International observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe welcomed the election process, noting that it had “largely upheld democratic commitments,” reports Reuters.
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