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KIEV: Ukraine's boxer turned opposition leader Vitali Klitschko said on Saturday he had decided against contesting snap presidential elections in May and would instead back the candidacy of businessman Petro Poroshenko.
The towering sports star's decision leaves the crisis-hit nation of 46million with two clear frontrunners in the May 25 vote -- Poroshenko and the highly divisive and corruption-stained opposition leaderYulia Tymoshenko.
The 42-year-old Klitschko conceded to fellow members of his aptly-named UDAR (Punch) party that he had slipped badly in public approval ratings in the tumultuous weeks following the February 22 ouster of pro-Kremlin president Viktor Yanukovych.
"We have to nominate a single candidate representing the democratic forces," Klitschko told an UDAR party congress.
"This has to be a candidate who enjoys the strongest public support. Today, this candidate in my opinion is Petro Poroshenko."
Klitschko added that he planned to run for mayor of Kiev in elections that will be held alongside the presidential polls.
The former heavyweight champion -- a proponent of closer European ties who was stripped of his title belt in December for spending too much time at the barricades instead of the boxing ring -- is a national hero who now leads the third-largest party in parliament.
Klitschko was viewed as the most potent political threat to Yanukovych at the height of the protests and enjoyed the support of more than 20 per cent of potential voters in late December.
But a survey published by four respected Ukrainian research firms this week put him second in the presidential ratings with less than nine per cent of the vote.
Poroshenko -- the only prominent Ukrainian tycoon to join protesters at central Kiev's battled-scarred Independence Square -- ranked first with the backing of almost a quarter of the respondents.
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