Ukrainians are set to vote out the vast majority of current MPs on July 21 in parliamentary elections that will mark a generational shift in the country’s political landscape and hand unprecedented power to President Volodymyr Zelensky. The election is a continuation of the ballot box revolution that began earlier this year when almost three-quarters of Ukrainian voters backed forty-one-year-old political novice Zelensky for the presidency over his experienced but tainted rival. The message is unmistakable: after almost three decades of chronic corruption and repeated false starts, voters want fundamental change and are willing to gamble with the country’s future in order to get it.
2019 Parliamentary Election
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People walk past a billboard depicting the logo of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and with slogan reading "Ze deputy is servant of the people" set at Independence Square in Kyiv on July 12, 2019.
