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Comedian leading in polls ahead of Ukraine election

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Ukrainian voters are so fed up with their incumbent president, Petro Poroshenko, that they might pick a comedian, Volodymyr Zelensky - who played a president on TV - as their new president in elections on Sunday. Poroshenko, and Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister, are running neck-and-neck for second place. If no candidate gets a majority on Sunday, the two front-runners will face off on 21 April.

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