{"id":16386,"date":"2019-04-21T16:34:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T23:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16386"},"modified":"2019-04-21T16:34:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T23:34:04","slug":"comedian-zelensky-wins-ukraine-presidency-election-by-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16386","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Zelensky wins Ukraine presidency election by landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has won a landslide victory in the country&#8217;s presidential election, exit polls suggest.<\/p>\n<p>The polls give the political newcomer, who dominated the first round of voting three weeks ago, more than 70% support.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Zelensky, 41, challenged incumbent president Petro Poroshenko who has admitted defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The apparent result is being seen as a huge blow to Mr Poroshenko and a rejection of Ukraine&#8217;s establishment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will never let you down,&#8221; Mr Zelensky told celebrating supporters on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not yet officially the president,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But as a citizen of Ukraine I can say to all countries in the post-Soviet Union: Look at us. Anything is possible!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If polls are correct, he will be elected for a five-year term. Official results are expected to come in throughout Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Zelensky is best known for starring in a satirical television series in which his character accidentally becomes Ukrainian president.<\/p>\n<p>The president holds significant powers over the security, defence and foreign policy of the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"vj-map-results-view__title\">\n<div class=\"vj-map-results-view__name-and-sub\">\n<h3 class=\"vj-map-results-view__regionName\">ZHYTOMYR<\/h3>\n<p>Votes for each candidate (%)<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"vj-map-results-view__turnout\">Turnout:\u00a0<span class=\"vj-map-results-view__turnout-value vj-map-flashable\">61.15%<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vj-map-results-view__candidates\">\n<div class=\"vj-map-results-view__candidates__photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/vjeurope\/47-ukraine-elections-live-second-round\/assets\/app-project-assets\/img\/portraits\/portr-3-big-tp.png?v=1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"vj-map-results-view__candidates__name\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/div>\n<div class=\"vj-map-results-view__candidates__bar\">\n<div class=\"vj-map-results-view__candidates__bar__progress\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vj-map-results-view__candidates__score\"><span class=\"vj-map-flashable\">74.11<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"vj-map-results-view__candidates__photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.files.bbci.co.uk\/include\/vjeurope\/47-ukraine-elections-live-second-round\/assets\/app-project-assets\/img\/portraits\/portr-1-big-tp.png?v=1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"vj-map-results-view__candidates__name\">Petro Poroshenko<\/div>\n<div class=\"vj-map-results-view__candidates__bar\">\n<div class=\"vj-map-results-view__candidates__bar__progress\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vj-map-results-view__candidates__score\"><span class=\"vj-map-flashable\">23.64<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has won&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16387,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16386\/revisions\/16387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}