volodymyr zelensky. he is even more than just a comedian. comedian. volodymyr zelensky.an who made his name playing a man who accidentally becomes president, would you believe. and now he is running for president. he wants to be president and as you can see, he is ten points ahead in the polls. this result depends on what happens to all the other percentages from the other 20 plus candidates, nearly 30 who will be eliminated. where their votes of the second time around. he will obviously pick up some of them. so will mr poroshenko. not beyond the bounds of possibility that mr poroshenko pulls through around two. nothing less that is an impressive showing by mr volodymyr zelensky, who is very much caught the nation. caught some of that rather satirical, disrespectfulfeeling towards politics in ukraine which have been messy to the saviour meets in recent years. you may recall because five years ago the time of the protests when the previous pro—russian president was hounded from office and mr poroshenko won the subsequent election. russia annexed crimea which had been rega

meet volodymyr zelensky-- actor, comedian, and, heading into tomorrow's election, the most popular candidate in the polls. here he is filming his hit tv show, "servant of the people," ilan which heys-- you guessed it-- the president of ukraine. zelensky's character starts out as an ordinary history teacher. >> reporter: but he acci pntally wins tsidential election af government corruption gets uploaded by a pupil and goes viral. >> reporter: now, not only is he running to be the real thing, he's namedolitical party "servant of the people," as well. it's as if martin sheen ran ford prt and registered a party called "the west wing." like his character, zelensky is mostly waging his campaign online a avoiding debates with his opponents. b's a departure from the methods of the parses and oligarchs that have run this country since dependence from the soviet union. >> ( translated ): i'm taking a swing at the elites and running for president, so they're calling me a clown. i am a clown, and i'm very proud of it. >> reporter: a candidacy like zelensky's would have been unimaginable just five years

the frontrunner to win is a television comedian — volodymyr zelensky — who is expected to beat the incumbentidential election since russia seized part of its territory in 2014. the main candidates are all largely pro—european. slovakia has elected its first female head of state. the anti—corruption campaigner zuzana chaputova won around 58% of the vote in a run—off against the governing party's marosh shefchovich. ms chaputova is a prominent environmental lawyer but has almost no previous political experience. she ran as an outsider for the liberal progressive slovakia party, framing the election as a struggle between good and evil. following the livestreaming of a terror attack in new zealand two weeks ago, the debate over who should regulate social networking sites, is back in the spotlight. facebook boss mark zuckerberg has called for more government regulation on the internet, and the australian government has announced plans for new laws which put more accountability on the social networking sites. sophia tran—thomson has this report. he founded the biggest social network in the world.

no one has lit up this contest quite like volodymyr zelensky. benny hill. than monty python. for me, monty python is better, i'm sorry. the front runner, mr zelensky, is a comedian with no political experience. i don't know if it's interesting for you, this. let's have a look. we've dropped into his office in kiev, as he works on new material with his team. mr zelensky has turned this election on its head. not very good result. no? the jokes weren't funny today? but it's been done by shamelessly blurring the line between fiction and fact. for the last three years, mr zelensky has been starring in a tv show called servant of the people. he plays an ordinary guy who unexpectedly wins ukraine's election. mr zelensky‘s campaign pitch is basically, vote for me and get fictional president holoborodko. for those who still don't get it, he's caught his political party servant of the people, just like his tv show. but there is one, rather important difference between the real candidate and the fictional president. on tv, much is made of the president defying the pow