It’s show time for superstar Ukrainian comic-turned-President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Sunday’s parliamentary election handed the political novice an overwhelming popular mandate to push through the reforms he promised in the run-up to the presidential election in May, where he unseated the incumbent president, Petro Poroshenko, in a landslide.
Ukrainians again showed up to support Zelenskiy’s bid to set the country on a new path. The vote gave his newly formed party, Servant of the People — named after the television comedy show that propelled him to fame — more than 250 out of 424 seats in the Ukrainian parliament, the Rada.
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Source: European Voice
