at that point, zelensky s main qualification was that he played the part of the president in a comedy tv series. in the tv series, zelensky s president, vasyl holoborodko, was the breath of fresh air that ukraine needed, taking on the rich oligarchs. so zelensky s election campaign cleverly blurred the lines between tv and real life, and people loved it. he went into polling day in the lead. are you ready to be president? i don t know! the people will decide it in the evening! when evening came, zelensky was confirmed with a landslide victory. so there we have it fact will follow fiction! what enabled zelensky to win the election was his savvy use of social media. ukrainians basically live on facebook here, and that was his direct channel.
president, a comedian who had no experience of politics when elected less than three years ago, is now leading his country in the fight against a russian invasion. 0ur correspondent who met him in his campaign trail in 2019 and the days after, has put together this report. ukraine s wartime president now has admirers all around the world. three years ago, when i first met him, he wasjust an actor and years ago, when i first met him, he was just an actor and comedian. you may pay a normal human. and you are running for president? then the prospect of a president zelensky seemed far fetched. at that point, his main qualification was that he had played the part of the president in a comedy tv series. in the tv