Ukrainian businessman, politician and presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko visits the aircraft repair plant Aviakon in the town of Konotop, in northern Ukraine, May 15, 2014. REUTERS/Mykola Lazarenko/Pool
KIEV (Reuters) - Confectionery tycoon Petro Poroshenko is likely to win Ukraine's May 25 presidential election in the first round of voting, an opinion poll showed on Thursday.
Poroshenko, who supported the pro-European uprising which ousted Kremlin-backed president Viktor Yanukovich in February, would get support from 54.7 percent of voters - an absolute majority, according to the survey.
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