Volodymyr Zelensky promises to end the five-year conflict with Moscow-backed separatists. (AFP pic)KIEV: Ukrainians gave their comedian-turned-president Volodymyr Zelensky a mandate to reboot the country’s politics on Sunday by handing his party a record score in parliamentary elections, exit polls showed.
Zelensky’s Servant of the People party named after the sitcom he starred in before his shock presidential win in April took 43.9% of the vote in Sunday’s election, according to combined figures from three pollsters.
It was the highest score in a parliamentary election for any party since Ukraine gained its independence with the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Source: Free Malaysia Today
