Most Ukrainian voters polled by the Rating sociological service are planning to vote for parliamentarian and businessman Petro Poroshenko or former Prime Minister and Batkivschyna party leader Yulia Tymoshenko. A public opinion survey conducted by Rating and made public on April 29 show that 84% of the respondents are more or less confident that they would go to the polling stations, including 55% of those fully confident and 29% saying they are likely to vote.
As many as 29% of the respondents intend to vote for Poroshenko, 13% for Tymoshenko, 6% for self-nominated candidate Sergiy Tigipko, 5% for Party of Regions candidate Mykhailo Dobkin, 4% for Radical Party leader Oleh Liashko and Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko each, 3% for doctor Olha Bohomolets, Civic Position leader Anatoly Hrytsenko, and Svoboda party leader Oleh Tiahnybok each, and 1% for Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh.
If Poroshenko and Tymoshenko proceed to the second round of the elections, 41% of those polled said they would vote for the billionaire and 15% for the former prime minister, 21% would vote against both, 12% would not vote at all, and 11% are undecided.
The poll of 1,200 respondents aged 18 and more was conducted in all regions of Ukraine and Kyiv on April 3-12, 2014.
The presidential elections in Ukraine are scheduled for May 25. The Central Elections Commission has registered 23 candidates to run in them.
