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The seventh presidential campaign in the history of Ukraine came to the end at midnight local time on Friday, TASS agency reported.

All campaigning is prohibited on Saturday , and utility service workers began to remove banners and posters from public places. Ivan Varchenko, an advisor to the country’s interior minister, said that Ukrainian legislation does not view social networks as media, and, therefore, electioneering there is not formally punishable by the law.
According to Ukrainian political experts, the current day of silence may become crucial for the outcome of the vote, because more than half of Ukrainians still remain undecided on whom to support.

A record number of candidates - 39 people - will take part in Ukraine’s presidential election set for March 31, 2019. According to latest opinion polls, comedian Vladimir Zelensky leads the race (26%-28%), followed by the head of the Batkivshchina (or Fatherland) party Yulia Timoshenko (13%-17%) and trailing behind her is incumbent President Pyotr Poroshenko (16.5%-18%). Also in the top five are opposition candidate Yuri Boyko (9.5%-11%) and leader of the Civil Position party Anatoly Gritsenko (8.4% and 9.8%).