The key players in Ukraine’s upcoming presidential campaign are current Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and leader of Ukraine's Batkivshchyna Party Yulia Tymoshenko, Director of Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation Iryna Bekeshkina has told Apostrophe, adding that Ukrainians should be ready for surprises.
"According to polls, Poroshenko and Tymoshenko will get into a second round, but there is still quite a lot of time, it's too early to say something. Let’s recall that just a year before the presidential elections, in 2013, sociologists did not even put the current president on candidate lists," Bekeshkina said in an interview with the Ukrainian news portal Apostrophe.
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