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Poll Favors Comedian as Run-Off Vote Nears in Ukraine

by Reuters

   The presidential candidate and comic actor Volodymyr Zelenskiy is
   likely to win Ukraine's presidential election, according to an opinion
   poll published on
   Tuesday.

   The poll by the KIIS research firm showed Zelenskiy, a political novice
   who plays a fictional president in a popular TV series, on 72.2% of the
   vote. Incumbent Petro Poroshenko was on 25.4%.

   KIIS polled 2,004 voters in all regions, except annexed Crimea, from
   April 9 to 14.

   Last week, a poll by Reiting research agency gave Zelenskiy 61 percent
   of votes and incumbent Petro Poroshenko 24 percent.

   Poroshenko and Zelenskiy will meet in the second round of Ukraine's
   presidential election, which will take place on April 21. Zelenskiy won
   nearly twice as many votes as Poroshenko in the first round, on March
   31.