Ukraine 'chocolate king' will win May 25 vote in first round - poll


  • World
  • Tuesday, 20 May 2014

KIEV (Reuters) - Confectionary tycoon Petro Poroshenko remains on track to win Ukraine's presidential election in the first round of voting due on Sunday, according to a poll published on Tuesday.

Poroshenko, who backed the pro-European uprising that ousted Moscow-backed president Viktor Yanukovich in February, would get support from 53.2 percent of voters, according to the survey, the second in a row to show him winning an absolute majority.

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