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Poll Favors Comedian as Run-Off Vote Nears in Ukraine


FILE - This combination of file pictures shows presidential candidates, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (L), taken Nov. 3, 2018, and Ukrainian comic actor and showman Volodymyr Zelenskiy, taken March 6, 2019.
FILE - This combination of file pictures shows presidential candidates, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (L), taken Nov. 3, 2018, and Ukrainian comic actor and showman Volodymyr Zelenskiy, taken March 6, 2019.

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.

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