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8. Poroshenko: Ukraine's chocolate king holds golden ticket

Poroshenko: Ukraine's chocolate king holds golden ticket

(AFP) He has chocolate factories galore, is a self-made billionaire and occasional revolutionary, but Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko also wants to be president, and many believe he holds the golden ticket.

The tall, slightly greying 48-year-old is one of Ukraine's 10 richest men and also one of the most popular, topping opinion polls this week with 25 percent ready to back him in the May 25 snap presidential election.

A shrewd politician who has flip-flopped between governments for more than a decade, Poroshenko was the only Ukrainian oligarch to openly back the pro-European protest movement that ousted president Viktor Yanukovych, under whom he served as economics minister.

Handing out chocolates, or taking to the stage to denounce Ukraine's stupefying levels of corruption, Poroshenko became a favourite figure at Kiev's protest camp on Independence Square.

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