Is Ukraine blazing a trail?
KIEV: A comedian with no political experience won a landslide victory in Ukraine's presidential election on Sunday (Apr 21), exit polls showed, dealing a stunning rebuke to the country's political establishment.
Volodymyr Zelensky, whose only previous political role was playing the president on television, trounced incumbent Petro Poroshenko by taking 73 per cent of the vote, according to exit polls conducted by several think tanks.
Poroshenko lost to the television star across all regions of the country, including in the west where he traditionally enjoyed strong support.
It was an extraordinary outcome to a campaign that started as a joke but struck a chord with voters frustrated by poverty, corruption and a five-year war that has claimed some 13,000 lives.
The 41-year-old star of TV series "Servant of the People" will now take the helm of a country of 45 million people beset by challenges and having run on the vaguest of political platforms.
Ukrainian elites are now engaged on a massive scrape-egg-from-face operation. European elites should now be afraid too...
Jonathan Pie for Prime Minister!
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Hey, Al Franken became a US Senator...
ReplyDeletePat Paulson for President!
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DeleteJokes aside, it shows the deep malaise of loss of confidence in 'the system''
ReplyDelete'May you live in interesting times...'