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Showman Volodymyr Zelenskiy remains the leader among presidential candidates, followed by Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko and incumbent President Petro Poroshenko. These are the results of a poll conducted by the Social Monitoring Center and the Yaremenko Ukrainian Institute of Social Research.

Some 22.6 percent of respondents are ready to vote for Zelenskiy, while 13.3 percent of respondents are ready to support Tymoshenko. Poroshenko is supported by 11.5 percent of respondents, according to poll results presented at the Kyiv-based Interfax-Ukraine news agency on March 20.

Anatoliy Hrytsenko, Civil Position Party leader is ranked fourth – 8.2 percent, followed by Opposition Platform – For Life candidate Yuriy Boiko.

The survey was conducted by the Social Monitoring Centre and the Yaremenko Ukrainian Institute of Social Research from March 11 through 18 March by the method of personal interview. In total, 2,047 respondents over 18 were surveyed. The margin of error was +/- 2.2 percent.