Comedian Inaugurated as Ukraine’s New President Immediately Disbands Parliament

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deadantelopes on May 20th, 2019 at 10:33 UTC »

So this headline is probably going to confuse people. He's not dissolving the existence of the parliament, rather he's essentially putting every seat in it up for immediate reelection.

NicNoletree on May 20th, 2019 at 10:19 UTC »

“Throughout all of my life, I tried to do everything to make Ukrainians laugh,” he said with a smile. “In the next five years I will do everything so that Ukrainians don’t cry.”

Capitalist_Model on May 20th, 2019 at 09:49 UTC »

immediately disbanded parliament, which he has branded as a group only interested in self-enrichment.

Zelenskiy asked the Supreme Rada to adopt a bill against illegal enrichment and support his motions to fire the country’s defense minister, the head of the Ukrainian Security Service and the Prosecutor General. All of them are allies of former President Petro Poroshenko, who lost the presidential election in a landslide to the comedian

Anyone from Ukraine willing to weigh in? Is this a good thing?