{"id":38310,"date":"2019-04-01T11:22:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38310"},"modified":"2019-04-01T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:22:45","slug":"comedian-takes-big-lead-in-ukraine-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38310","title":{"rendered":"Comedian takes big lead in Ukraine elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Moscow (CNN)<\/cite>Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky took the lead in the first round of national elections, according to preliminary results released by the country&#8217;s Central Election Commission Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">With just over 60% of the result of Sunday&#8217;s vote tallied, Zelensky, a television comedian and political newcomer who is widely seen as a protest candidate that appeals to younger voters, has 30.4% of the votes cast.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;I would like to say &#8216;thank you&#8217; to all the Ukrainians who did not vote just for fun,&#8221; he said in an appearance posted online by US-funded broadcaster Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty (RFE\/RL) Sunday.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow (CNN)Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky took the lead in the first round of national elections, according to preliminary results released by the country&#8217;s Central Election Commission Monday.With just over 60% of the result of Sunday&#8217;s vote tallied, Zelensky, a television comedian and political newcomer who is widely seen as a protest candidate that appeals&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38310","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\/38310","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=38310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}