Ukraine's Poroshenko, pro-Europe forces dominate election


KIEV (Reuters) - President Petro Poroshenko's political bloc was on course to win a parliamentary election in Ukraine on Sunday and two other pro-Europe parties also performed strongly, an exit poll showed.

The exit poll put the pro-Western leader's bloc on 23 percent of votes cast on party lists, his prime minister's People's Front on 21.3 percent and a like-minded party, Selfhelp, on 13.2 percent.

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