Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a political novice and favourite to win Kiev's presidential vote, heads to Paris to meet French President Emmanuel Macron
Ukrainian comic actor and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy casts his ballot at a polling station during a presidential election in Kiev, Ukraine March 31, 2019.
The actor, whose only political experience is playing the president in a TV show, is due to meet Macron at the Elysee palace. They were "especially important", he said, in the face of "attempts" to lift Western sanctions against Russia, imposed on Moscow after its 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.
Zelenskiy has said he will only debate Poroshenko in Kiev's Olympic Stadium, which seats over 70,000 people. The Ukrainian president has agreed, but the pair have so far given different dates for the event. A new poll released Thursday showed 61 percent of Ukrainians intend to vote for Zelenskiy in the second round on Sunday. It found only 24 percent would back Poroshenko.
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