A comedian tipped to take over Ukraine’s presidency and his incumbent rival went head-to-head in a bitter stadium debate yesterday, as campaigning reached its grand finale before a weekend vote.Polls show Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a 41-year-old stand-up comic with no political experience, handily defeating President Petro Poroshenko in a second-round of voting tomorrow.The showman’s bid started as a long shot but he leapfrogged establishment candidates amid frustration over corruption, economic trouble and a conflict with Moscow-backed insurgents in the country’s east.Several thousand spectators attended the first and only policy head-to-head of the extraordinary campaign that took place in Kyiv’s Olympic Stadium …read more
Source: Gulf times
