波罗申科赢得乌克兰总统选举

　　KIEV, May 25 (Xinhua) -- "Chocolate King" Petro Poroshenko has won Ukraine's presidential election on Sunday with an absolute majority, exit polls showed.
Poroshenko won 55.9 percent of the vote, ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko 12.9 percent of the vote, and Oleh Lyashko, 8 percent, according to the national exit poll.
Another exit poll, conducted by the TNS pollster at television channels' order, indicates that Poroshenko got 57.3 percent of the vote, Tymoshenko 12.4 percent and Lyashko 8.7 percent.
A third exit poll, conducted by sociologists of the Savik Shuster Studio, demonstrated similar figures, with Poroshenko winning 55.7 percent of the vote, Tymoshenko 12.9 percent and Lyashko 8.8 percent.
If confirmed by results on Monday, there will be no need for a runoff vote on June 15, which Poroshenko has said could destabilize the country.
Poroshenko, 48, a wealthy businessman and independent politician, was taking the lead before the vote. He is also a former minister of trade and the head of the council that runs the national bank. Known as the "Chocolate King", he controls a large confectionery group called Roshen.
The election has about 35.5 million eligible¹ voters and 34,000 polling stations across the country, except Crimea.
Meanwhile, the separatists have proclaimed independent "people' s republics" in the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk and blocked voting there on Sunday. It is reported that only about 20 percent of polling stations in the two eastern regions had functioned.
The Ukrainian government has deployed² around 55,700 police officers and 20,000 volunteers to guarantee public order at the polling stations across the country.
Some 3,500 international observers, including diplomats³ from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and representatives of 19 foreign countries have monitored the vote.
The early election was called three months after former President Viktor Yanukovych was forced out of office in February and fled to Russia soon afterwards.（本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑）

1 eligible   

adj.有条件被选中的；(尤指婚姻等)合适(意)的

参考例句：

• He is an eligible young man.他是一个合格的年轻人。
• Helen married an eligible bachelor.海伦嫁给了一个中意的单身汉。

2 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

3 diplomats   

n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 )；有手腕的人，善于交际的人

参考例句：

• These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
• The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》