Comedian set to win first round of Ukraine presidential vote


  • World
  • Wednesday, 27 Mar 2019

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainians exhausted by five years of war and decades of official corruption look set to send a comedian with no political experience into a second round run-off against the incumbent when they vote in Sunday's presidential election.

The favourite in Sunday's first round vote is Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a political novice who plays a fictitious Ukrainian president in a popular TV series and who, in real life, has tapped into an anti-establishment mood among voters.

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