Well you and all morning. This is deja vu news live from berlin a comedian takes the lead in ukraines president ial election its a poll showing t. V. Star and political talent is for lodging to be as alinsky has won the first round of voting placing boiling it up incumbent Petro Poroshenko we will get the latest from here. And its also pushing day in turkey with people paying costing ballots in municipal elections why do you see it as a test score president wants occupation is a posse is leading in many cities but the contest for the capital im told that is
close to. Im christine window while coming to the program and ukraines first round of president ial elections its of polls show a clear Comedian Phonology me as an unskilled with just over thirty percent off the push now incumbent president Petro Poroshenko whos led the country since winning fourteen trail significantly behind selenski is a political novice but after todays results the funnyman says hes serious about winning in the
corruption and low living standards which if you were to me this election is like another made on protest the third mass protest shocker for deciding where country will be in ten to fifteen years time we re choosing the country or children and grandchildren will be living you know she did you. say isn t it though and of course i m satisfied we voted for the lenski everything is cool though we didn t expect poroshenko to make it into the second round as everyone starts the runner up with. everyone including yulia timoshenko herself the former prime minister is a heroine of the country s pro western movement she spent years in jail on what she says were politically motivated charges she called the exit polls dishonest and asked supporters to wait for final results. the central election commission said no systematic violations had been registered touring the poll despite allegations of widespread vote buying when acknowledging more than two thousand complaints the
presidency. offscreen he may not be entirely outside the system critics say he s in the pocket of an oligarch who owns the t.v. channel that era selenski program and who opposes president petro poroshenko to many the incumbent has failed to fix everything that s wrong about ukraine corruption and low living standards. to a pitch that you would tell me this election is like another made on protest the third mass protest concur for deciding where country will be in ten to fifteen years time we re choosing the country or children and grandchildren will be living in egypt where she did you. know enough of course i m satisfied we voted for selenski. everything is cool though we didn t expect poroshenko to make it into the second round as everyone starts the runner up with. everyone including yulia timoshenko herself the former prime minister is a heroine of the country s pro western movement she spent years in jail on what she
his confectionery fortune to the presidency in the last election demanding he represents everything that is wrong about ukraine now corruption and low living standards he made his name as a pro european anti russian candidate though and he s sticking to it. the british leave this we have passed the test for our european ways and it means everything we do to head in the european direction is absolutely right. the other major alternative is yulia tymoshenko she s got experience as a former prime minister and instant name recognition as a heroine of the country s pro western movement but she spent years in jail on what her supporters say were politically motivated charges. so an outsider comedian and table tennis player who may not be an outsider versus the status quo president versus a compromised freedom fighter from the past no matter what the result ukrainians can t say they didn t have