Ukraine elects comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy president, exit polls show
Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his wife Olena Zelenska cast their ballots on Sunday in Kiev.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy won a convincing victory in Sunday's runoff election, ousting incumbent President Petro Poroshenko, national exit polls showed.
Ukrainian comedian and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy, center right, and his wife, Olena Zelenska, center left, leave a polling station after voting during the second round of presidential elections in Kiev on Sunday.Despite immense popularity, Zelenskiy's often populist rhetoric has been questioned by political pundits.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his wife Maryna Poroshenko hold their ballot papers into a ballot box at a polling station during the second round of Ukraine's presidential election in Kiev on Sunday.The two clashed in a much-publicized debate at the nation’s largest sports arena Friday, hurling insults and attacking each other’s vision for Ukraine’s future.
But many Ukrainians don’t share that view. Despite his uncompromising efforts to keep the country on a pro-European path, Poroshenko has been accused of reluctance to tackle rampant corruption, a failure to reinvigorate the economy and an inability to end the war with pro-Russian separatists in the east — a five-year-long conflict that he promised to resolve in just two weeks before he swept into power in 2014.
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