Zelensky win makes Ukraine 1st country outside Israel with Jewish PM

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/zelen...ntry-outside-israel-with-jewish-pm-president/

Following the victory of Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine’s presidential elections, the country will become the only one in the world besides Israel whose president and prime minister are both Jewish.

When Zelensky is sworn in as president, his prime minister — at least for a while and possibly until the parliamentary elections scheduled to take place sometime later this year — will be Volodymyr Groysman, a Jewish politician who was the mayor of the city of Vinnytsia.

 

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Ukraine to become first country outside Israel whose president and PM are both Jewish

If official exit polls from Ukraine’s presidential elections are to be believed, that country is set to become the only one in the world besides Israel whose president and prime minister are both Jewish.

Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky’s dramatic lead in exit polls Sunday — in many of them he received more than 73 percent of the vote — was so overwhelming that it prompted a concession of defeat by incumbent Petro Poroshenko even before the official results were in, Radio Liberty reported.

If Zelensky is sworn in as president, his prime minister — at least for a while and possibly until the parliamentary elections scheduled to take place sometime later this year — will be Volodymyr Groysman, a Jewish politician who was the mayor of the city of Vinnytsia.

To some of Proshenko’s critics, the landslide success of the vague campaign by the politically inexperienced Zelensky was not surprising in light of widespread resentment over the persistence of corruption under Poroshenko, who was elected in 2014 on a platform that vowed remedial action on exactly that front.

More unusual to some, however, was how Zelensky appears to have won the elections so decisively in spite of how his Jewish ancestry – his mother, Rima, is Jewish and he has jokingly referred to this during the campaign — is well known in Ukraine.

After all, Russia and other critics claim Ukrainian society has a serious anti-Semitism problem and legacy.

 

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I think Benjamin Disraeli should count for that title but he may have converted to anglican xtianity before becoming PM

 

[TruthHurtz]

Clown country, despite being 0.2% of the population jews account for over 50% of power positions in a majority slavic nation. Imagine the outrage if an Arab politician started making headways in Israel. In fact he wouldn't have a chance anyway, Ukrainians themselves are complicit in this clownery. Stop choosing between clown and jester and create your own third party solution, that's how all great (organic) revolutions occured.

The future of their nation is literally going to be decided by the eastern european Larry David. Honk honk.