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In reply to the discussion: Ukraine's former President &Prime Minister to formalize and strengthen alliance with Neo-Nazi groups [View all]The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)To make or break a coalition one must be invited into it. Parties which are outliers to the system, as the Svoboda is, will not be invited in unless conditions are extraordinary. In the up-coming election for Parliament, Svoboda may well not meet the threshold campaigning on its own. Much of what might be its vote will go to the Radicals, also something of an odd duck, a personal party whose strength comes from its taking an anti-Russian stance ( understandably popular in Ukraine just now ) without mixing it up with symbols out of a past most Ukrainians do not much like either. The far right parties together would net perhaps twenty percent of the vote if they formed a unity bloc, which they probably will not do. President Poroshenko's bloc has a dominant share of the electorate at present, around forty percent, and there are several 'Christian Democrat' center-right parties he could readily assemble a majority from should his own group fail of achieving one on its own.