Ukrainians are so fed up with their political leaders that they’d rather back novices including a comedian or a rock singer at elections next year. Neither has even confirmed he’ll run yet.
Polls paint a bleak picture for President Petro Poroshenko, who took charge in 2014 vowing an end to the rampant corruption of his Kremlin-backed predecessor. Progress since a second pro-European revolution in a decade has been too scant to keep him popular and opposition mainstay Yulia Tymoshenko is on track to prevail in first-round voting in March.
