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Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 1 December 1991, [1] the first direct presidential elections in the country's history. Leonid Kravchuk, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and de facto acting president, ran as an independent candidate and was elected for a five-year term with 62% of the vote.
Ukrainian presidential elections determine who will serve as the President of Ukraine for the next five years. [ 1 ] Since the establishment of the position of the President of Ukraine in 1991, presidential elections have taken place seven times: in 1991 , 1994 , 1999 , 2004 , 2010 , 2014 and 2019 .
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Elections in Ukraine are held to choose the president (head of state), Verkhovna Rada (legislature), and local governments. Referendums may be held on special occasions. Ukraine has a multi-party system , often no single party has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments .
English: 1991 Ukrainian Presidential Election Map. This map shows the winning vote share by oblast, autonomous republic, and city with special status. This map shows the winning vote share by oblast, autonomous republic, and city with special status.
Meanwhile, in a radical shift in the U.S. approach to Ukraine, President Donald Trump has blasted the country's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a "dicatator" and blamed him for the Russian invasion.
The first presidential election in Ukraine was held on 1 December 1991. On 22 August 1992, the last President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile Mykolva Plaviuk transferred his authorities to the first post-Soviet president Leonid Kravchuk. Non-partisan, without support or independent People's Union "Our Ukraine" Party of Regions All ...
In August 1991, with the New Union Treaty having not been adopted by the Soviet Union, a withdrawal from the USSR was proposed. The overwhelming majority of voters backed the idea in an independence referendum in December , approving a declaration of independence .