Comedian who plays president on TV wins presidential elections in landslide

Where? Of course that can happen only in the dark tragicomedy that is post-Maidan Ukraine.

Nearly three in four voters just made Volodymyr Zelenskiy the next president of Ukraine. So what’s next?

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Originally Posted by meduza.io With 99.72 percent of all second-round ballots counted, the actor Volodymyr Zelenskiy has defeated incumbent President Petro Poroshenko with 73.22 percent of the votes — the largest victory margin in Ukraine’s history as an independent nation. In terms of absolute numbers, however, Zelenskiy received just 13.5 million votes — fewer than any of his predecessors, except Poroshenko in 2014 (who got 9.8 million, but won in the first round) and Viktor Yanukovych in 2010 (who received 12.4 million votes). The only region Poroshenko won this weekend was Lviv (in the first round, he’d also won in the Ternopil region). Additionally, it's important to remember that neither Crimea nor the two separatists “republics” in the Donbas participated in Ukraine’s last two presidential elections. Roughly 6 million people live in these areas. [...]

So "The West"'s darling, the horrible, ultra-corrupt Petro "Porky" Poroshenko will be stripped of his immunity soon and likely will end up in Israel before that happens and he would have to face the several criminal investigations against him. The man who he accused of being behind Zelenskiy, fellow oligarch Kolomoiski who owns the TV network that hosts the presidential comedy series, has already fled to Israel years ago. Zelenskiy, himself Jewish as well, has denied the accusation and said that unlike Porky, he is at least not an oligarch himself.

Well, things can almost only get better for Ukraine, so here's hope that the guy is sincere and capable.

via International Skeptics Forum http://bit.ly/2UQLdwI