Ukrainian TV Comic Wins Presidency in Landslide, Exit Poll Shows

Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a 41-year-old TV comic who’s tapped into fury at the political class, got 73 percent of ballots compared with 25 percent for incumbent Petro Poroshenko, according to the survey by three pollsters.“People are disillusioned with the old elite, which hasn’t proved itself after the revolution,” Yuriy Yakymenko, an analyst at the Razumkov Center for Economic and Political Studies in Kiev, said by phone.“Zelenskiy positioned himself as a populist poli