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Were elections to the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada held this Sunday, seven parties, including five of the six currently in parliament, would definitely win seats.

Such are the findings of a sociological survey conducted by the Institute of Analysis and Forecasting, the Oleksandr Yeremenko Ukrainian Institute of Social Studies and the Social Monitoring center with the support of the Kyiv press club had conducted as part of the Resetting – Open Power project, which were unveiled in Kyiv on July 25.

Among those who already made up their minds, most (17.9 percent) would vote for Yulia Tymoshenko’s Batkivschyna Party; 15 percent would vote for the Opposition Bloc Party and 14.7 percent for Andriy Sadovy’s Samopomich.

The Petro Poroshenko Bloc “Solidarity” Party is favored by 13.8 percent of respondents; Oleh Liashko’s Radical Party, by 13.7 percent. Oleh Tiahnybok’s Svoboda Party would win 7.2 percent of the vote, while Mikheil Saakashvili’s bloc For the Purification of Government would muster 5.1 percent.

Vadim Rabinovich’s Center, favored by 4.5 percent, would also have a chance of getting into parliament.

“Please note a very high percentage of the people who are still undecided who they would vote for during parliamentary elections. They are 26.4 percent,” Mykhailo Peresunko, Executive Director of the Kyiv Press Club of the National Journalists’ Union, said while adding that 7.8 percent would not go to the polls if parliamentary elections were held this Sunday.

The poll was conducted by individual interview among 2,010 respondents aged 18 and above across Ukraine on July 5-16.