Ukraine election: Comedian leads presidential contest - exit poll
A comedian with no
political experience has won the most votes in the first round of
Ukraine's presidential elections, according to exit polls.
They
say Volodymyr Zelenskiy - who played the president on TV - received
30.4% of the vote, with current leader Petro Poroshenko second on 17.8%.The two - who have expressed largely pro-EU opinions - are set to take part in a run-off election next month.
Ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko appears to have been eliminated on a projected 14.2%.
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Mr Poroshenko described his forecast second place as a "harsh lesson".
Ukraine Presidential Election 2019
A total of 39 candidates were on the ballot paper, and with none receiving 50% the top two will go forward to the run-off on 21 April.
The Ukrainian president has significant powers over security, defence and foreign policy and the ex-Soviet republic's system is described as semi-presidential.
Who is Volodymyr Zelenskiy?
Mr Zelenskiy is aiming to turn his satirical TV show Servant of the People - in which he portrays an ordinary citizen who becomes president after fighting corruption - into reality.He has torn up the rulebook for election campaigning, staging no rallies and few interviews, and appears to have no strong political views apart from a wish to be new and different.
His extensive use of social media appealed to younger voters.
Mr Zelenskiy's readiness to speak both Russian and Ukrainian, at a time when language rights are a hugely sensitive topic, gained him support in Ukraine's largely Russian-speaking east.
How did we get here?
Mr Poroshenko, a chocolate magnate and one of Ukraine's wealthiest people, was elected in a snap vote after former pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was toppled in the February 2014 Maidan Revolution, which was followed by Russia's annexation of Crimea and a Russian-backed insurgency in the east.The next president will inherit a deadlocked conflict between Ukrainian troops and the eastern separatists, while Ukraine strives to fulfil EU requirements for closer economic ties.
The EU says that about 12% of Ukraine's 44 million people are disenfranchised, largely those who live in Russia and in Crimea, which Russia annexed in March 2014.
Mr Poroshenko aimed to appeal to conservative Ukrainians through his slogan "Army, Language, Faith".
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