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.The pro-Moscow Opposition Platform-For Life came second with 11.5%, the polls said.The …read more
Source: theSun
