Ukraine preparing for presidential elections

12:27, 30.03.2019

Presidential elections will be held in Ukraine on March 31, 2019. More than 35 million people are eligible to vote in the elections.

The 39 candidates are running for the presidential post. According to opinion polls, three hopefuls stand a chance to become the country’s sixth president.

They are Petro Poroshenko, a billionaire with a chocolate empire who is also known as the Chocolate King; opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, once a natural-gas magnate who has the nickname Gas Princess; and a comedian, Volodymyr Zelensky, who has no political experience.

If no candidate receives an absolute majority of the vote, a second round will be held on April 21, 2019.

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