“We will not let the Ukrainians down” says Zelensky after his party won parliamentary elections “We will not let the Ukrainians down” says Volodymyr Zelensky after electors gave their comedian-turned-president a mandate to reboot the country's politics on Sunday by handing his party a record score in parliamentary elections, exit polls showed. Zelensky's Servant of the People party -- named after the sitcom he starred in before his shock presidential win in April -- took 43.9 percent of the vote in Sunday's election, according to combined figures from three pollsters. SOUNDBITES