The next presidential elections in Ukraine are in 2019. Of course, people are interested in their winner. According to the data provided by Democratic initiative fund, if the elections took place right now, Yulia Tymoshenko would become the leader with more than 13% of the voices. Anatoliy Grytsenko (9.5%) and Yurii Boiko (8%) would follow her. Just after them – current president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko with almost 8% of votes. However, more than 1/3 of people have not decided yet who will be their candidate. 5% plan to neglect the elections, 5.5% don’t support anyone.
For those people who don’t trust politicians anymore there is an alternative – celebrities. Some of them have already shown their presidential ambitions: Oleh Vynnyk commented on the situation this way: “If I was a billionaire I would become the president of Ukraine. This is so cool to have money and give them to your motherland’s development”. Ivo Bobul, people’s singer of Ukraine, is also one of the possible candidates. He is already collecting money for the campaign and is not worried about failure – he believes people will choose him.
Meanwhile, popular Ukrainian singer and the front man of “Okean Elzy” band – Svyatoslav Vakarchuk and the showman Volodymyr Zalenskiy in the mentioned above questionnaire gained 5 % of the votes each.
However, the Ukrainians mostly don’t take celebrities seriously. It is doubtful that their occupation will help Ukraine’s development. What do you think about it?