In a hit TV sitcom, Volodymyr Zelensky plays a schoolteacher who gets elected president almost by accident. But in real life, the actor's run for the Ukrainian presidency is no laughing matter.
, where the Kremlin has backed separatist militias and supported the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics. The so-called Minsk peace talks have collapsed, and daily fighting continues.
Ukraine has only once reelected a sitting president in its post-Soviet history. Poroshenko’s best chance at becoming the second incumbent to be re-sworn lies in his ability to convince voters that even if they don’t like him personally, at least they know they are getting strong pro-Western voice by reelecting him.
Tymoshenko, 58, has twice served as prime minister and has also served time behind bars on charges of abuse of power, accusations she claims were politically motivated by her rivals.During the 2004 Orange Revolution, she stepped onstage in Kiev with her long, blond hair wrapped in a halo of thick braids. The traditional Ukrainian peasant woman’s hairstyle stuck, and she became instantly recognizable in the West as Ukraine’s firebrand who could whip up a crowd with her populist rhetoric.
When Zelensky announced his candidacy on New Year’s Eve, his weekly television show on a nonstate channel, “Servant of the People,” was already a nationwide hit. Zelensky plays Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko, a high school history teacher who wins the presidency after a video of him ranting to a colleague about Ukraine’s inept and corrupt politicians goes viral. The show focuses on the trials and tribulations of the unlikely people’s president going up against the political establishment.
Zelensky has given few interviews to the press and has not participated in debates with other leading candidates. Critics say he lacks a clear plan for ending the war in eastern Ukraine, a major concern for the country.
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