To bring you to. Come. This is deja vu news live from berlin Tens Of Thousands of people take to the streets across europe to protest against far right parties and show their support for the e. U. Recent polls show nationalist and Populist Parties are likely to make major gains in European Parliament elections which begin this coming thursday. Also coming up posterous president called Snap Elections after a Corruption Scandal forces the resignation of the countrys far right vice
chancellor. And the winner of this years euro vision song contest receives a warm welcome back home in the netherlands. Laurence is the 1st such friend to win the competition in nearly 5 decades. Thanks for joining us Tens Of Thousands of people have been rallying across europe ahead of the upcoming European Parliament elections theyre protesting against nationalist and far right parties and showing their support for a stronger if you recent polls suggest anti e. U. Parties are likely to do well in the election
that selenski is being sworn in as the new president of ukraine we re looking at live pictures there from the parliament the comedian and actor won a landslide victory in last month s election despite having no political experience selenski was shit was known for playing the president in a popular t.v. sitcom there he is. you watching. the fun. to get.
a look at how we got that i want you expecting. my. it was a result that even zelinsky himself seen you couldn t quite believe 73 percent almost 3 quarters of ukraine voters had put their trust in him as the political year by a man who had only announce his intention to run in just a few months before a face familiar to almost all ukrainians from television but someone who had never been involved in politics let alone run for office. for incumbent petro poroshenko it was a stinging defeat losing to zelinsky in all but one ukraine s regions his pitch to the nation as commander in chief as the man who had kept ukraine in its army together in the face of russian aggression had fallen on deaf ears simply in the weeks since his sensational victory selenski has kept out of the limelight making only a handful of appearances most of them on social media as ukraine s parliament squabbled
fairly abstract promise of change of a new person a new approach to politics rather than the nitty gritty and the kind of concrete political steps that really seems to convince ukrainians to vote for anything but the politicians they knew. they took we know anything about selenski plans for the country. well terry we re scratching our heads here he gives very few media interviews and he hasn t given any since he was elected prefer and said to let his advisors do the talking but even they are pretty nebulous when it comes to the nitty gritty of the detail he has talked about shaking up the system and more concrete terms taking away the immunity that that politicians the members of parliament and the president has to allow them to face charges and even prosecution he talks about giving ukrainians more of a say over every day politics to referendums but so far that s all pretty abstract and as president he won t be able to do this alone he ll need. a majority in
a 2nd term and what would that mean for the country. also coming up an anniversary here in germany at the core of the country s democracies the basic law was enacted 70 years ago speaks to this talk president spoke on short book about what it means for germany today. hello i m terry martin good to have you with us former actor and comedian volodymyr selenski is being sworn in at this hour as ukraine s new president selenski won a landslide victory in last month s election but there s still little known about the future direction his leadership will take he has no political experience although then playing the president in a television set call this election is widely seen as a protest vote against the failure. about going president or ashamed.