Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian and actor, is the front-runner in a field of more than 40 candidates
featuring photographs of brave protesters fills Kiev’s Independence Square, or Maidan. Displays reproduce Ukrainians’ Facebook posts from key moments during the movement that overthrew the former president, Viktor Yanukovych, five years ago. “I stopped counting covered bodies,” reads one, recalling the day when police opened fire on demonstrators. “How many of them are there?” The revolution was dubbed the “Revolution of Dignity”.
Ukrainians are frustrated with their post-revolutionary leadership. Three-quarters of them say the country is headed in the wrong direction, despite the fact that Ukraine has moved closer to Europe . That is because the central promise of the revolution—uprooting the country’s deeply corrupt, oligarch-controlled political system—remains unfulfilled. A recent Supreme Court decision to strike down a key anti-graft law passed in 2015 exemplifies the backsliding.
One evening earlier this month, Mr Zelensky could be found on set in a chilly Kiev basement, in costume as his man-of-the-people-turned-president character, Vasyl Holoborodko. The show’s latest season, set to air in the heat of the campaign, serves as Mr Zelensky’s main political advertising. In one scene being filmed, Mr Zelensky’s character prepares to take the oath of office.
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