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posted by martyb on Monday April 22 2019, @10:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the Just-kidding? dept.

Ukraine election: Comedian Zelensky wins presidency by landslide

Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has won a landslide victory in the country's presidential election, exit polls suggest.

The polls give the political newcomer, who dominated the first round of voting three weeks ago, more than 70% support.

Mr Zelensky, 41, challenged incumbent president Petro Poroshenko who has admitted defeat. The apparent result is being seen as a huge blow to Mr Poroshenko and a rejection of Ukraine's establishment.

"I will never let you down," Mr Zelensky told celebrating supporters on Sunday. "I'm not yet officially the president," he added. "But as a citizen of Ukraine I can say to all countries in the post-Soviet Union: Look at us. Anything is possible!"

See also: Ukrainian Presidential Debate Sparks Envy Among Russians And Belarusians – OpEd


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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @11:15AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @11:15AM (#833335)

    Ukrania has a comedian in charge. USA has a clown in charge.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @03:01PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @03:01PM (#833403)

    honk honk

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @04:35PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 22 2019, @04:35PM (#833436)

      A clown car with nonstop clowns.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @09:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @09:39AM (#833779)

    America's last great comedian was George Carlin and they can't exhume him to run as president because of the power outages when the country finds out the flywheel they attached to his corpse is the only thing keeping the power grid running :)