Volodymer Zelensky's popularity ride on the back of discontent with the political establishment. – EPA pic, April 21, 2019.
UKRANIANS vote in the second round of an extraordinary election today with a comedian who plays a president on TV expected to win in a stunning rebuke to the political establishment. Forty-one-year-old Volodymyr Zelensky’s bid to lead the country was initially dismissed as a joke. But opinion polls suggest incumbent President Petro Poroshenko is heading for defeat amid widespread anger over poverty and corruption.
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