The 2019 Ukrainian presidential election is scheduled to be held on Sunday March 31,2019
As per the Ukrainian Law,the presidential elections must take place on the last Sunday of March of the fifth year of the term of the incumbent President and the Ukrainian Parliament had to approve the date of the presidential election no later than 100 days before the election day
34,544,993 people were eligible to vote in the elections
There are a total of 39 candidates for the election
According to Ukrainian law, a presidential candidate must be -
- citizen of Ukraine
- at least 35 years old
- can speak the Ukrainian Language
- has lived in Ukraine for the last ten years prior to election day
- nominated by a political party, or by self-nomination
A total of 2,344 international observers from 17 countries and 19 organizations were officially registered to monitor the elections and a record number of 139 non-governmental Ukrainian organizations are registered as observers
Volodymyr Zelenskiy,a comedian leads Ukrainian presidential election
Volodymyr Zelenskiy(41) is aiming to turn his satirical TV show Servant of the People - in which he portrays an ordinary citizen who becomes president after fighting corruption - into reality
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has torn up the rulebook for election campaigning, staging no rallies and few interviews, and appears to have no strong political views apart from a wish to be new and different.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy's extensive use of social media appealed to younger voters.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy's readiness to speak both Russian and Ukrainian, at a time when language rights are a hugely sensitive topic, gained him support in Ukraine's largelyRussian-speaking east
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