Coming up to the election there are three candidates getting the most support in the polls. The current president Poroshenko seems to be in third place in most polls. His slogan seems to be president a din (#1) Yulia Tymoshenko, who has run for president before is either 2nd or 3rd, it seems. Her billboards are a patriotic blue and yellow, we got a newspaper in the mailbox that Nelly was reading, sounds like she's making lots of promises.
Both these candidates have had people coming through the village encouraging people to vote for their candidate. Garry actually talked to someone campaigning for the current president, but had to say he couldn't vote anyway. They wanted Garry to pay when he asked to take photo of them. Lots of advertising on the radio, too.
The other popular candidate plays the president on television! We think his slogan is nash (our) president, and many people we talk to seem to support him. They say he can't be worse than a normal politician. It will be interesting if he gets into the run off or in office. He's the candidate people talk about, especially young people. Some people wonder about his and even Yulia having close ties to certain oligarchs, however.
Speaking of young people, Victor's daughter turned 18 this year and wanted to vote. However she discovered that she was not on the rolls. They told her the other office just hadn't sent the information for the 18 year old voters yet. She had to go the the courts and spent four hours there, just to be able to vote tomorrow (that
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