Parties led by Ukraine's PM and president are in the lead, now that 35 percent of the Sunday parliamentary elections ballots have been processed. Several southeastern regions have however given the majority of votes for the Opposition Bloc, reports GHN based on RT.
With 35.17 percent of ballots having been processed, PM Arseny Yatsenyuk's People's Front party is ahead of rivals with 21.69 percent of votes, according to Ukraine's Central Election Commission (CEC). The president's Petro Poroshenko Bloc is only slightly behind, so far garnering 21.63 percent.
The two parties have already launched negotiations on forming a coalition, according to the head of the Poroshenko Bloc, Yury Lutsenko.

"We have recently started talks with the People's Front", he said as cited by RIA Novosti. "There have taken place consultations between the president and the prime minister, and there's an expanded meeting of representatives of the two political forces planned for today."
The CEC also announced that only four other parties have passed the 5 percent threshold thus far. The other four parties making it into the Ukrainian parliament are the Samopomosh of Lvov's Mayor Andrey Sadovy (10.9), Opposition Bloc (9.77), Radical Party of Oleg Lyashko (7.47), and Yulia Tymoshenko's party Batkivshchina (Fatherland) (5.77).

Despite the overall parliamentary vote being led by the parties of the Ukrainian president and prime minister, described as the pro-EU ones, several regions in the southeast of the country demonstrated a different trend.

The Opposition Bloc, headed by former Deputy Prime Minister Yury Boiko, is ahead in the Kharkov, Lugansk and Zaporozhye Regions, according to preliminary data by Ukraine's Central Election Commission. In the Dnepropetrovsk and Donetsk Regions the Opposition Bloc is also leading the vote count in several election districts.