Ukraine’s Poroshenko voted Corrupt Politician of the Year

Dutch broadcasting organisation VPRO this week had an online vote on who was the most corrupt politician of the year 2016.

The ‘winner’ was the president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko.

Poroshenko beat other candidates, like President Mauricio Macri of Argentina, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (king of Saudi Arabia), Sigmundur Davið Gunnlaugsson (ex-Prime Minister of Iceland) and Prince Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani (ex-Prime Minister of Qatar).

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