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Comedian takes huge lead in Ukraine vote


A comedian with no political experience has taken a commanding lead in the first round of Ukraine’s presidential election, offering a fresh face to voters fed up with corruption in a country on the front line of the West’s standoff with Russia.
With three-quarters of votes counted yesterday, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a 41-year-old comic who plays a fictional president in a popular TV series, had won more than 30.5%.
It leaves President Petro Poroshenko in a distant second with just 16.6% of the vote, a hole that may be too deep to climb out from.
He faced a public furious at his failure to …read more

Source: Gulf times

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