Ukraine's 'pitchfork' populist could be wild card in new line-up


  • World
  • Sunday, 19 Oct 2014

KIEV (Reuters) - He's not averse to taking a dizzying punch to the head if he can score a point. Rights groups accuse him of using armed squads to abduct suspected separatists. His party's programme, somewhat improbably, calls for nuclear rearmament of Ukraine.

But no matter how outrageous his antics and programme seem, firebrand politician Oleh Lyashko strikes a chord among many in a population pushed to extremes by war. Polls suggest he will be a political wild card whose support President Petro Poroshenko may reluctantly have to seek after next Sunday's election

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