Most of the population does not support the idea of early parliamentary elections in Ukraine, according to public opinion poll conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Razumkov Centre from May 11-26, 2016 and by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology on Dec. 15-25.
The idea of early parliamentary elections is rejected by 43 percent of Ukrainians, while 37 percent speak in its favor, according to the sociological survey, released in Kyiv on Tuesday. Should early parliamentary elections happen, 56 percent of the respondents would vote.
If early parliamentary elections were held in the nearest future, six parties would have passed the election threshold – five currently present in the parliament and the Civil Position party. In the meantime, the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Union would have collected the most – 12 percent of the popular vote.
Those prepared to vote would give their voices to Samopomich (10.6 percent), the Petro Poroshenko Bloc (9.9 percent), the Opposition Bloc (9.1 percent), the Radical Party of Oleh Liashko can count on 8.4.% of the vote and the Civil Position Party – on 6 percent.
Compared to December 2015, Batkivschyna, the Radical Party, the Civil Position and the Opposition Bloc (4 percent each) have improved their electoral position. Over the last six months the number of respondents ready to vote but who are still undecided about which party to support significantly decreased from 40 percent to 13 percent.
At the same time, only a quarter of the population believes that in case of early elections the newly elected composition of the Verkhovna Rada would be better than the current one. A total of 41 percent of respondents are convinced that the new parliament would be the same as the present one, while 8.5 percent believe it will be worse.
These are the results of a nationwide survey of the Ukrainian population, conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation along with the sociological service of the Razumkov Centre on May 11-16, 2016.
Some 2,016 respondents older than 18 years of age were polled in all regions of Ukraine, except for the occupied territories – Crimea and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts. The margin of error is 2.3 percent.
