Three candidates have the most plausible chance of winning the first round in Ukraine’s March 31st presidential election: President Petro Poroshenko; former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko; and Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a politically untested comedian whose popular television show, Servant of the People, portrays him as an intrepid corruption fighter. Zelenskiy’s popularity can be explained as a symbolic protest against the status quo.
2019 Presidential Election
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Alexander J. Motyl and Dennis Soltys: Rating presidential candidates
President Petro Poroshenko greets his supporters, speaking at the forum on Jan. 29, 2019, in Kyiv, where he announced he would run for re-election. Recent polls put Poroshenko in second or third place.
