UKRAINE – Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky announced a snap parliamentary election during his swearing as Ukraine’s new president.
The election was expected to take place on Oct. 2019.
“I am dissolving the Verkhovna Rada,” Zelensky said talking about the parliament.
He added ending the conflict with Russian-backed rebels in the east would be his top priority.
A political novice, he campaigned strongly against official corruption.
Fighting in the east claimed about 13,000 lives since Moscow annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in 2014. (BBC)
