Volodymyr Zelenskiy, elected to Ukraine’s presidency Sunday in a landslide, may be one of the least prepared leaders to head a democracy in world history. Not only is he an outsider, whose main experience of politics has been to play a president in a satirical television program, he has done little to prepare for the job.
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Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy reacts during a news conference at his campaign headquarters in Kyiv following the presidential election on April 21, 2019.