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According to Ruban, 21.3% of those polled would have voted for Yanukovych, 14% of would have opted for Tymoshenko and 10.1% would have supported Yatseniuk. Yaroslav Debelyi If the presidential election were to be held next Sunday, the three first places would be won by Regions Party leader Viktor Yanukovych, Premier Yulia Tymoshenko and leader of the NGO Front of Changes Arseniy Yatseniuk, according to a survey carried out by the National Institute for Strategic Studies (NISS) on September 8-12, 2009.

NISS Director Yuriy Ruban presented the results of the survey at a press conference in Kyiv on Friday.

According to Ruban, 21.3% of those polled would have voted for Yanukovych, 14% of would have opted for Tymoshenko and 10.1% would have supported Yatseniuk.

According to the poll, the Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko would be in fourth place, with 7.4% of the vote.

Parliamentary speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn would be fifth, with 4.3%, and a total of 4% of those polled would have voted for Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko.

According to the poll, 17.6% of respondents wouldn't have supported any of the possible candidates, while a total of 4% of those polled found it difficult to answer whom they would support at the presidential elections.

A total of 2010 people were polled in all regions of Ukraine, including Crimea and Kyiv. The poll's margin of error was 2%.