Pro-European political groups won a sweeping victory in the recently-concluded Ukraine parliamentary elections, President Petro O. Poroshenko announced on Sunday.

Official results are pending vote tally by the local electoral commission on Monday.  If confirmed, Poroshenko's transformative government would open Ukraine to Europe and other Western countries.

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Poroshenko's political party was running ahead the votes; however, he would need majority of People's Front to gain overall control, said party leader Prime Minister Arsenly P. Yatsenyuk. Exit polls showed the Ukrainian president harboring 23 percent of the ballots from 29 competing political groups.

Former Fuel Minister Yuriy Boiko's party, the Opposition Bloc, surprisingly garnered 7.6 percent of the votes, strong enough to push itself in the parliament. The Opposition Bloc is also supported by Ukraine's wealthiest businessman and Poroshenko's former chief of staff, Sergiy V. Liovochkin.

Other parties such as the populist Radical and the nationalist Svoboda are also likely to enter the parliament. The Batkivshchyna party under the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko performed worse as expected with only 5.6 percent of the total count.

Several members of the Euromaidan protests, mostly war veterans with little to no political experience, posed strong parliamentary advantage.

Only 225 out of 450 seats in the parliament were pre-determined by the numbers given, while official results shall be out in a few days. The 450 seats in Rada will be apportioned by members of the winning political parties, and the other half from candidates elected in local districts.

Together with United States and EU, Ukraine is eager to bring end to violence that started since the 1990s Balkan Wars. In contrast, pro-Russian separatists proclaimed they would hold separate elections on November 3, where they would vote officials for a "self-declared republic." 

According to United Nations, at least 400,000 Ukrainians were displaced from their homes in the Crimean Peninsula, the disputed Russia boundary. Due to the long-standing war, international elections experts estimated that at least five million citizens in the Novotroitske and Dokuchayevsk regions were not able to cast votes.

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