The novice comedian in politics Volodymyr Zelensky won Sunday a landslide victory over incumbent President Petro Poroshenko with 73% of the votes according to first estimates. AFP Source On the screen, Volodymyr Zelensky has already been president of Ukraine. Fiction became reality Sunday. The novice political actor won a landslide victory in Ukraine's presidential election against incumbent President Petro Poroshenko, reflecting the extent of voters' mistrust of power, according to a poll at the polls. The comedian was able to take advantage, through a campaign of "simple type" from the people, the disappointment of Ukrainians to their post-Soviet elites. The 41-year-old comedian won 73% of the vote in the second round of the presidential election, compared with 25% for his 53-year-old rival, according to the poll conducted at the exit of polling stations by the "Exit Poll National" consortium of three institutes. . The comedian said Sunday he wants to "revive" the peace process involving Russia over the war in the pro-Russian separatist east. "We will continue the process of Minsk, we will revive it," he told reporters in his first press conference after the vote, referring to the peace agreements signed in February 2015 under the auspices of Kiev , Moscow, Paris and Berlin.....
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