CEC registers 30 presidential candidates

Ukraine's Central Election Commission (CEC) has registered politician Roman Bezsmertny and MP Viktor Bondar as presidential candidates in the election scheduled for March 31, 2019.

Respective decisions were made at a CEC meeting on Monday, an Ukrinform correspondent said.

As of February 4, the CEC has registered 30 candidates for the post of the head of state, in particular, Ihor Shevchenko, Serhiy Kaplin, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, Vitaliy Skotsyk, Andriy Sadovy, Vitaliy Kupriy, Yevheniy Murayev, Anatoliy Hrytsenko, Hennadiy Balashov, Olha Bogomolets, Oleksandr Shevchenko, Roman Nasirov, Yuriy Boiko, Oleh Liashko, Arkadiy Kornatsky, Oleksandr Vilkul, Yulia Tymoshenko, Dmytro Dobrodomov, Oleksandr Moroz, Illia Kyva, Ruslan Koshulynsky, Oleksandr Danyliuk, Serhiy Taruta, Volodymyr Zelensky, Ihor Smeshko, Inna Bohoslovska, Yuriy Derevianko, Mykola Habera, Roman Bezsmertny, and Viktor Bondar.

The presidential election process began in Ukraine on December 31, 2018. The registration of candidates for the presidency will last until February 8 inclusive.