Ukraine presidential rivals undergo televised drug tests


  • World
  • Friday, 05 Apr 2019

Ukraine's President and presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko undergoes a drugs and alcohol test, which is a precondition to participate in a policy debate ahead of the second round of a presidential election, at NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine April 5, 2019. Mikhail Palinchak/Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS

KIEV (Reuters) - The two remaining candidates in Ukraine's presidential race underwent televised drug and alcohol tests on Friday, capping a week in which they traded jibes in tit-for-tat social media videos and goaded each other to agree to a live policy debate.

President Petro Poroshenko is facing Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a comedian with no political experience who plays a fictional president in a TV series, in a run-off on April 21 after neither obtained a majority of votes in the first round last Sunday.

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