Ukrainian presidential election, 31.03.2019

[DavidB.]

Someone who represents the nationalist right, is committed to destroying the power of the oligarchs, and isn't bought and paid for.

None of the above. Oleh Tyahnybok

... but this one is too extreme for me. Not going to support someone from Svoboda.

[DavidB.]

Poroshenko has like sub-Flanby level approvals atm iirc - will he even run again?

No, almost definitely not.

[DavidB.]

3)How credible are corruption allegations against Tymoshenko

This is Ukraine. All politicians are corrupt. The question is only to which extent.

So a lot of the Ukrainian parliament are liberals and conservatives, is there a Labor party or movement? What do unions go for in this environment?

'Labor' I would say is unfortunately caught up in Soviet nostalgia a bit - I would say the most left-wing party economically is OB. But I doubt it will be that important a political divide for this election.

Someone who represents the nationalist right, is committed to destroying the power of the oligarchs, and isn't bought and paid for.

None of the above. Oleh Tyahnybok

... but this one is too extreme for me. Not going to support someone from Svoboda.

I guess you want Lyashko, so I suppose we can be happy you won't be voting.

Don't know much about him, so I'm interested: why would I prefer him?

Since this thread seems to be more about our opinion than about actual election discussion, and since Karpatsky opened a more fact-based thread, I requested to have this one moved to Individual Politics by one of the moderators.

[DavidB.]

Does anyone know why this thread was moved out of Int'l Politics? Does it somehow not qualify?

Because there was another thread, I think, and this one's OP was basically "who would you vote for?", which is Individual Politics content.

Someone who represents the nationalist right, is committed to destroying the power of the oligarchs, and isn't bought and paid for.

None of the above. Oleh Tyahnybok

... but this one is too extreme for me. Not going to support someone from Svoboda.

I guess you want Lyashko, so I suppose we can be happy you won't be voting.

Still interested in learning more about him. Could you elaborate?

Currently it is a mixed system, like Germany. More respondents would prefer a FPP system (16.5%) to the current system (15%), which says something.

As far as I know it is not "like in Germany", because the Ukrainian system is not proportional: unlike in Germany, Ukraine does not have a mechanism with overhang and additional mandates to make sure the ultimate seat distribution is proportional. Therefore the Ukrainian system can be classified as MMM whereas the German system is MMP.