Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy comfortably won the first round of Ukraine’s presidential election on Sunday and is likely to face incumbent Petro Poroshenko in an April 21st run-off, exit polls suggested. After casting his ballot in Kiev, Mr Zelenskiy said he had voted for a “very decent, suitable person”. “A new life is beginning, a life without corruption and bribes; life in a new country, a country of dreams,” he added. Mr Zelenskiy (41) is a complete political novice who, in his television show, Servant of the People, plays a schoolteacher pitched into the role of president. Puppet for enemies“I am ready for deep and substantive dialogue with those whom I failed to convince in the first round,” Mr Poroshenko (53) said on Sunday night.

Source: The Irish Times March 31, 2019 18:56 UTC