Ukraine’s presidential election is less than a week away, and no candidate will win outright with fifty percent. Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy leads in the polls and will certainly be in the run-off election on April 21. The big question is whether he will face incumbent President Petro Poroshenko or former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Poroshenko leads Tymoshenko by less than 2 percent, so the race is tight.
2019 Presidential Election
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An elderly woman carries a leaflet she got from the campaign booth of former Ukrainian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko on Independence Square, in Kyiv on March 26, 2019, ahead of Ukraine's presidential elections on March 31.
