In Ukraine Snap Elections, New President Aims to Consolidate Power – The New York Times

According to most recent polls, Mr. Zelensky’s party, called Servant of the People, is polling at around 50 percent, putting it in a good position to win enough seats to form a government.

If the party — named after the television comedy in which Mr. Zelensky played a teacher who unexpectedly becomes president — fails to win a majority, then it would probably look to form a coalition government. The most likely partners appear to be either a pro-European, center-right party led by Sviatoslav Vakarchuk, a rock star, or the populist party of former Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko.

The main parties running in opposition to Mr. Zelensky are the pro-Russian Opposition Platform, which is currently polling in second with about 10.5 percent, and European Solidarity, the party of Mr. Zelensky’s predecessor, Petro O. Poroshenko. The Opposition Platform is led by Viktor Medvedchuk, an ally of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. European Solidarity is polling around 7.7 percent.

Vladimir V. Fesenko, a political scientist who heads Penta, a research organization in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, said there was “a high probability” that Mr. Zelensky’s party would take control of Parliament.