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Comic poised to take over presidency in Ukraine vote

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (L) and challenger Volodymyr Zelensky (R) are both hoping to win on Sunday. [AFP]

Ukrainians went to polls Sunday in the second round of an extraordinary election with a comedian who plays a president on TV expected to win in a stunning rebuke to the political establishment.

Forty-one-year-old Volodymyr Zelensky's bid to lead the country of 45 million people was initially dismissed as a joke when he announced his candidacy on New Year's Eve.

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