Both incumbent President Petro Poroshenko and television comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy made it to the second round of Ukraine’s presidential election, scheduled for April 21 with Zelenskiy holding what appears to be an insurmountable lead. Zelenskiy led Poroshenko by almost 2-1 winning 30.24 percent of the vote to Poroshenko’s 15.95. Add to that the vote of the two pro-Russian holdbacks from the Yanukovych regime, Yuri Boyko (with 11.67) and Oleksandr Vilkul (4.15), whose supporters can most certainly be counted in the Zelenskiy camp for the second round, and you’ve got a total of over 46 percent. This quite closely mirrors exit polls where respondents were asked whom they would vote for in the second round. The result was a resounding 49.4 percent for Zelenskiy compared to 19.8 percent for Poroshenko.
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This combination of files pictures made on March 31, 2019 shows portraits of presidential candidates : Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (L) taken on Nov. 3, 2018 and Ukrainian comic actor and showman Volodymyr Zelenskiy taken on March 6, 2019.
