* Comedian in lead with 30% of votes
* Appeals to voters fed up with corruption, status quo
* No candidate expected to win outright
* Incumbent Poroshenko staunchly pro-West
A comedian with no political experience raced ahead in the first round of Ukraine’s presidential election on Sunday, offering a fresh face to voters fed up with entrenched corruption in a country on the frontline of the West’s standoff with Russia.
With over half of all ballots counted by Monday morning, 41-year-old Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who plays a fictional president in a popular TV series, held a comfortable lead over incumbent President Petro Poroshenko in a …read more
Source: Gulf times
