If local elections were held in Ukraine next Sunday, six political forces would overcome the 5 percent qualification threshold to be elected to local government bodies, i.e. the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, Batkivschyna, the Opposition Bloc, the Samopomich Association, the Radical Party of Oleh Liashko, and Svoboda, as is seen from a public opinion survey whose results were presented at a press conference at the Interfax-Ukraine office on July 30.
In particular, the Petro Poroshenko Bloc would garner 23.7 percent of the vote, Batkivschyna 11.9 percent, the Opposition Bloc 11.2 percent, the Samopomich Association 10.5 percent, the Radical Party of Oleh Liashko 9.3 percent, and Svoboda 7.4 percent.
The People’s Front party, which currently has a faction in the Verkhovna Rada, would be supported by only 3.2 percent and the UDAR party by 1.8 percent of voters in local elections.
As many as 72 percent of the respondents said they would go to polling stations in elections to local government bodies if they were held next Sunday. Voters in the western, central, and northern part of Ukraine and in Kyiv would be more active in casting their ballots than those from the southern and eastern parts of the country.
The poll also showed that, if elections to the Verkhovna Rada were held next Sunday, 26.9 percent would vote for the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, 11.9 percent for Batkivschyna, 10.5 percent for the Samopomich Association, 10.1 percent for the Opposition Bloc, 10.1 percent for the Radical Party of Oleh Liashko, and 6.3 percent for Svoboda.
The poll of 3,924 respondents using personal interviews was conducted on July 4-14, 2015 by the Social Monitoring center and the Yaremenko Ukrainian Institute of Social Studies jointly with the division of monitoring studies of socioeconomic transformations of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences’ Economics and Forecast Institute in 24 oblasts of Ukraine and in Kyiv, except for the territories not under its control in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
