"His party is losing political leadership in almost all regions," analyst Mykola Davydiuk told AFP. His newly created Servant of the People party won an outright majority in a parliamentary election last year, a record win in the former Soviet republic of around 40 million people.īut in the absence of tangible results, Zelensky's popularity and that of his party has been on the decline. Zelensky, a former comedian with no political experience, won a landslide victory in a 2019 presidential election promising to root out corruption and end a war with Russian-backed separatists in the east. The local elections were seen as a test for Zelensky, whose popularity has suffered in the year-and-a-half since he came unexpectedly to power. His party Servant of the People won the elections to municipal councils in two large cities in the centre of Ukraine, but in the other seven it most often placed third or fourth, according to two polls. In nine major cities and regional centres across the country where the polls were held, no presidential party candidate was elected mayor - not even in Zelensky's hometown. Early exit polls showed that Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has suffered a setback in Sunday's local elections, while his pro-Russian and pro-European rivals are leading in most of the country's major cities.
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