More than a quarter of Ukrainians would vote for incumbent President Viktor Yanukovych in presidential elections if they were held next weekend, and Batkivshchyna parliamentary faction leader Arseniy Yatseniuk and leader of the UDAR party Vitali Klitschko would compete for qualifying for the second round, the Sofia social research center found after conducting a poll of 5,004 respondents in all regions of Ukraine on December 6-17.
In particular, the poll showed that 25.8 percent of the respondents
determined to cast their ballots would vote for Yanukovych, 16.1 percent for
Yatseniuk, and 16.0 percent for Klitschko.
Svoboda All-Ukrainian Union leader Oleh Tiahnybok would be supported
in presidential elections by 7.8 percent of the respondents, Communist Party
leader Petro Symonenko by 6.5 percent, and parliamentarian Anatoliy Hrytsenko of
the Batkivshchyna faction by 2.6 percent.
Another 1.3 percent of the respondents would back Natalia Korolevska, the
leader of the Ukraine-Forward! Party and social policy minister; 0.8%
former Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn, and 0.5 percent Ukrainian
Choice movement leader and former presidential chief of staff Viktor
Medvedchuk.
As many as 5.2 percent of those polled would vote against all candidates, and 17.4% are undecided.
Asked whether they would go to polling stations, 48.4 percent said they
certainly will or are likely to do so, 26.8 percent would probably do so, 6.1 percent
would probably not, 13.5 percent would certainly not cast their ballots, and
5.2 percent are undecided.
Presidential elections in Ukraine are scheduled for 2015.
