The jokes on you, now
Unless your cable TV package includes a lot of Ukranian programming, you might not have heard of comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy until recently. (I know I certainly hadn’t.) But you’ll be hearing a lot more about him now. The guy who made his bones playing a sarcastic version of the real president of Ukraine (think of him as an eastern European version of Alec Baldwin) was elected to become that nation’s actual president in a landslide yesterday. Given all of the problems that Ukraine is already struggling with, what could possibly go wrong? (Associated Press)
Results from nearly all polling stations show that TV star Volodymyr Zelenskiy has won the Ukrainian presidential runoff vote in a landslide.
The Central Election Commission says Monday that Zelenskiy has won 73% of the vote while the incumbent President Petro Poroshenko got just 24% support with more than 95% of the ballots counted.
