Posted on 04/17/2019 8:17:41 AM PDT by Gamecock
Ukrainians fed up with entrenched corruption and hungry for change are likely to elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a comedian with no previous political experience, as their next president in a run-off vote on Sunday.
The 41-year-old Zelenskiy, who plays a fictitious president in a popular TV series, has maintained a strong lead since winning nearly twice as many votes as the incumbent President Petro Poroshenko in last month’s first round of the election.
An opinion poll by the KIIS research firm on Tuesday showed Zelenskiy with 72 percent of the vote and Poroshenko with 25 percent. Last week a different survey put them on 61 percent and 24 percent respectively.
Zelenskiy’s rise fits a pattern of political insurgency across many parts of the world, from the election of President Donald Trump in the United States, to Brexit, to the Five Star Movement in Italy that was also propelled by a comedian.
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In my country, they speak of a man so virile, so potent, that to spend a night with such a man is to enter a world of such sensual delights most women dare not dream of. This man is known as the "Comedian". You may tell jokes, Mr. Jerry Seinfeld, but you are no Comedian.
I miss Pat Paulsen.
Yokov Smirnoff is Ukanian?
We had a clown for president for 8 years and that didn’t work out so well.
“When people start taking the comedian seriously and the politician as a joke, everything changes.” - Will Rogers
And snow tires.
That’s gold Larry, Gold!
This popular television series is NOT a comedy...so who benefits from persistently calling this guy a comedian when he is also a serious actor and University trained lawyer?
Poroshenko is going to lose badly on Sunday no matter how hard the Lügenpresse tries to belittle his opponent.
Al Frankin is moving over there? Oh, wait, you did say, “comedian”, didn’t you?
I still am surprised poroshenko got 17% of the vote, i thought he was only going to get 12%. Maybe 5% is from cheating
Hopefully, it will work out for them better than Al Franken.
Franken’s politics are no laughing matter.
Shotgun Joe Biden has massive ties to Ukraine. Is it him?
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