{"id":38100,"date":"2019-03-30T20:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T20:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38100"},"modified":"2019-03-30T20:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T20:22:28","slug":"in-ukraines-election-a-comedian-might-be-voters-best-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38100","title":{"rendered":"In Ukraine&#8217;s election, a comedian might be voters&#8217; best choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Europe is bracing for one expensive, long and exhausting election. A record number of 39 candidates are gunning for the top spot in the first round of Ukraine&#8217;s presidential elections Sunday. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Ukrainian voters will be greeted with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/ukraine-politics\/here-are-all-39-candidates-for-president-of-ukraine.html\" target=\"_blank\">mesmerizing docket<\/a> in the voting booth: a dermatologist, a trained spy, a former tax chief on trial over corruption, a self-proclaimed Cossack military commander of Ukraine, an anchorwoman, a comedian and a few filthy rich oligarchs. To round out the ballot is Illia Kyva, criminally convicted of bribery (but later granted amnesty) and who has a penchant for homophobic posts on Facebook and posting his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ilya_kiva\/\" target=\"_blank\">naked muscular torso on Instagram<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Also remarkable is that there are three, rather than the usual two front-runners: the dinosaurs &#8212; known as the &#8220;chocolate king&#8221; (incumbent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/30\/europe\/ukraine-elections-putin-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">President Petro Poroshenko<\/a>) and the &#8220;gas princess&#8221; (former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko) &#8212; and a professional comedian (Volodymyr Zelenskiy) are in a heated race to advance to the second-round runoff April 21. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Europe is bracing for one expensive, long and exhausting election. A record number of 39 candidates are gunning for the top spot in the first round of Ukraine&#8217;s presidential elections Sunday. Ukrainian voters will be greeted with a mesmerizing docket in the voting booth: a dermatologist, a trained spy, a former tax chief on trial&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}