On Monday the delegation led by Andrej Plenkovic (EPP, Croatia) met with president Petro Poroschenko and prime minister Arseniy Yatsenuk, whose parties gained the biggest support with each obtaining about 22% of the vote. "Despite the extremely difficult situation in the country, the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia and the aggression Ukraine is suffering, the government and the electoral authorities succeeded in organising these elections very well," Plenkovic said.
The election observation mission boasted 14 MEPs from nine different EU countries, representing all of the Parliament's political groups. On elections day they observed the opening of polling, voting and the count in Kiev, Odessa, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Cherkasy.
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