In Ukraine, completed the second round of presidential elections.

According to the National exit poll, the candidate from the Servant of the People party, Vladimir Zelensky, wins with a score of 73.2%. His opponent, the current head of state, Petro Poroshenko gained 25.3%.

Zelensky thanked his team and relatives for the high results. He noted that the elections were fair. In turn, Poroshenko admitted defeat and expressed readiness to leave the post of head of state.

“Dear Ukrainians, next month I will leave the post of head of state. That is what most Ukrainians decided, and I accept this decision, ”he said.

The Ukrainian TV channel “1 + 1” conducted its exit poll, according to which Zelensky was also in the lead - he had 72.7%, while Poroshenko was gaining 27.3%.

More than 1,000 reports of election irregularities were sent to the police. 15 criminal cases were initiated. This was reported in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

“As of 19:00, the police received 1167 reports of violations of the electoral legislation, 15 facts are included in the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reported.

At the same time, the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Zoryan Shkiryak, stated that the violations recorded did not affect the election results.

“Mass fraud is not fixed. And those offenses that took place are not systemic in nature. They are mostly local. Therefore, they have no influence on the election results, ”he said.

According to preliminary data, voter turnout was 57.55%. At the same time, the districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, as well as Ukrainians in Russia, that were not controlled by Kiev, did not take part in the voting. Earlier, Kiev decided not to open polling stations in its diplomatic missions.

“Promise less and do more”

Poroshenko voted in elections in the Kiev House of Officers. In turn, Vladimir Zelensky voted on the site in the metropolitan area of ​​Obolon.

At the same time, Zelensky demonstrated to the camera an already filled out newsletter, thus violating Ukrainian legislation. In this regard, the police made a puncture about the offense. As stated in the National Police of Ukraine, the penalty for the demonstration of a completed bulletin can be from 510 to 850 hryvnia ($ 19-31).

Commenting on this event, Ukrainian MP Anton Gerashchenko said that Zelensky violated the “starvation secret”, probably referring to the article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine “Violation of the secrecy of the vote.”

    At the same time, at the polling station where Zelensky voted, an activist of Femen arranged a rally - when the candidate entered the building, she took off her clothes and started shouting: “Stop raping the country!”.

    She later stated that she did not support any of the candidates. From the station, she was taken out by the staff of the election commission.

    The second president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, took part in the voting. Commenting on the elections, the former head of state said that he was “a little sorry” for the future president of Ukraine.

    “You understand well: a war that has no end in sight, a divided Ukraine, an economy on the verge of default - I won’t list all the problems that still exist ... Less promise and more to do. Because we have seen today - what was promised sometime during the election campaign and with which we arrived five years later, we got the result, ”the spokesman said.

    Recall that in the first round of March 31 Zelensky scored 30.23% of the vote, and Poroshenko - 15.94%. Turnout then amounted to 63.52% or about 18.8 million Ukrainians.

    "Social danger"

    On the eve of the voting day, April 20, the Ukrainian lawyer and election observer from the public organization Ukrainian Association of Shareholders, Andrei Khilko, announced that the Sixth Kyiv Court of Appeal would consider a lawsuit declaring Zelensky’s candidacy from the election.

    The lawyer accused the politician of allegedly violating election laws. According to him, Zelensky on his page on the social network offered subscribers to come to the debate between candidates for free on April 19.

    “Such a pre-election campaign or provision to voters free of charge or on preferential terms of any services, lotteries, accompanied by the mention of the name of the candidate, is considered to be a bribe to voters in paragraph 1 of Part 3 of Art. 56 of the law (“On the election of the president of Ukraine”) ”,“ Strana.ua ”gives the text of the statement of claim.

    However, the court dismissed the charges. According to the court decision, the appeal of the policy does not fall under the concept of "bribing voters." The pre-election headquarters of Zelensky said that the lawsuit was filed with the aim of creating an infoprovod.

    “This lawsuit is only a tool for creating an infopowder and the last attempt to prevent a candidate for elections, and therefore has an increased public danger,” said a representative of Zelensky in court.

    The Poroshenko team said they were not related to Zelensky’s accusations of "voter bribery."

    “We have nothing to do with this lawsuit at all, we believe that this is a discredit on the eve of the elections,” Gromadske TV quoted the words of Poroshenko’s headquarters representative Oleg Medvedev.