Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy wins Ukrainian presidential race by landslide: exit poll (subscriber)
Ukrainian comedian and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky shows his ballot to the media at a polling station during the second round of Ukraine's presidential election in Kiev on April 21, 2019.Ukraine entered uncharted political waters on Sunday after an exit poll showed a comedian with no political experience and few detailed policies had easily won enough votes to become the next president of a country at war.
The national exit poll showed Zelenskiy had won 73 per cent of the vote with Poroshenko winning just 25 per cent.If the poll is right, Zelenskiy, who plays a fictitious president in a popular TV series, will now take over the leadership of a country on the frontline of the West’s standoff with Russia following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and support for a pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine.
But he has been coy about exactly how he plans to achieve all that. Investors want reassurances that he will accelerate reforms needed to attract foreign investment and keep the country in an International Monetary Fund programme.
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