Chef there and a limb pick wrestler a fellow comedian so it s all expected that these people will be fairly plausible and easy to be disciplined compared to political veterans that have been in ukraine s parliament up till now what would you say nick what the parliament election result was it a strong show of support for zelinsky or was it more of a protest vote against the established. i think this is very definitely still a rejection of the establishment and the status quo the people who have been responsible for ukraine failing to live up to its potential this is a country that has huge huge economic potential but where people are still living much worse off than in neighbors like poland for instance so huge frustration about sons of living here selenski has been very careful since he won the presidential election a couple of months ago not to offend anyone and his big electoral coalition is it was to. please everyone to say bring peace to don t basses approach the walls at
The same time not sounding too friendly towards russia he s basically been in campaign mode all this time so i think they re only going to really find out what kind of president selenski will make now off that these. elections election observers from the oas see they say that the election this weekend was fair and free however they accuse incumbent m.p. s of trying to buy votes in order to keep their seats as there been anything said about that by the president today and i mean this really speaks to how big the problem of corruption in ukraine really years doesn t. there s no getting around the fact that ukraine routinely comes at the bottom of european corruption rankings only russia routinely really doing worse i think the positive takeaway from today is that the old timers trying those tricks vote buying they didn t get away with it they were swept away by this tide of political newcomers that he has brought into parliament i think the real
A new space race i ll try to find out in just a my. colleagues and guests as they say welcome to the new reality the parliamentary election has taken place you can see the data on the screen as we process preliminary results to put it in for months and which it will show up in reality we may be looking at a situation when for the 1st time in the history of independent ukraine we ll have one party in the parliament which will be able to make all the decisions and will have the 226 votes to support all day legislative initiatives. to the senate or voters in ukraine went to the ballot box yesterday and made history for the 1st time parliament will be led by one party the party of the new president of a lot of years olinsky the comedian turned president who came to power with the promise of fighting corruption a mandate for change that is that much stronger tonight thanks to yesterday s