April 30, 2019 (Reuters)
Ukraine's central election commission on Tuesday published final results of the
presidential poll confirming that a comedian with no political experience had
won the country's presidential election by a landslide. Volodymyr Zelenskiy's
win was a bitter blow for incumbent Petro Poroshenko and presents a riddle for
investors, the West and Russia who wonder what approach he will take on
everything from relations with Moscow to the domestic banking sector. With 100
percent of votes counted, Zelenskiy had won 73 percent of the vote with
Poroshenko winning just under 25 percent, the central election commission said.
Zelenskiy, 41, will take leadership of a country on the frontline of the West's standoff with Russia following Moscow's annexation of Crimea and its support for a pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine. The ex-comedian, the latest anti-establishment figure to unseat an incumbent, both in Europe and further afield, has promised to end the war in the eastern Donbass region and to root out corruption amid widespread dismay over rising prices and sliding living standards. But he has not said exactly how he plans to achieve all that.
Zelenskiy, 41, will take leadership of a country on the frontline of the West's standoff with Russia following Moscow's annexation of Crimea and its support for a pro-Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine. The ex-comedian, the latest anti-establishment figure to unseat an incumbent, both in Europe and further afield, has promised to end the war in the eastern Donbass region and to root out corruption amid widespread dismay over rising prices and sliding living standards. But he has not said exactly how he plans to achieve all that.
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