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Novel politician Volodymyr Zelenskiy won a landslide victory in Ukraine's presidential election on Sunday (April 21st) against incumbent President Petro Poroshenko.
At the end of four months of non-standard campaign conducted mainly on social networks, the comedian novice in politics won 73% of the vote in the second round of the presidential election against 25% for his opponent, according to a survey conducted at the exit of the polling stations by the Exit Poll National consortium bringing together three institutes.
Partial official results are to be published overnight by the Electoral Commission, which has estimated participation at 12h Tu to more than 45%.
" I will never let you down, " Zelenskiy promised the Ukrainians from his country district, where he immediately went out to thank his supporters, before addressing " all the countries of the post-Soviet space ": " Look at us ! Everything is possible ! ".
Five years after the pro-Western revolution of Maidan, repressed in blood, the Ukrainians have once again decided to overthrow the table, this time by an election which did not miss short shots but took place in the together in calm and in respect of democratic standards.
New spectacular episode of the global anti-elite wave, the tidal wave won by Volodymyr Zelensky, who promised to " break the system " without deviating from the pro-Western course, gives the measure of the distrust of Ukrainians towards their class Petro Poroshenko is a veteran. The latter, beaten, congratulated his opponent.