© 112 AgencyUkraine's presidential candidates: Volodymyr Zelensky, Petro Poroshenko
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Volodymyr Zelensky received 30.4% of the votes and moves to the second round of presidential elections in Ukraine in the lead, show the results of polls.
Current President Pyotr Poroshenko came in second with 17.8% of the vote.According to the poll organized by 112 Ukraina and NewsOne, most of the pro-Zelensky votes came from parts of the east of the country, which gave the presidential candidate 42.2% of the votes. Zelensky failed to mobilize significant support from the western part of Ukraine, gaining few votes in the area.
39 candidates participated in the presidential race. Zelensky, Poroshenko, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko were the favorites. Although officially failed to get votes to go to the second round, the candidate
accuses the Federal Security Service of having defrauded the vote.Yulia's team issued a statement in which it places the former prime minister as Zelensky's legitimate opponent,
claiming she got 20.9 percent of the vote while the current president would have actually received 17.5 percent of the vote.
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