Moscow, December 14 (Interfax) - Eighty-nine percent of Ukrainian citizens plan to take part in the presidential election on Jan. 17, 2010. The rating is at its highest (91%) in eastern regions, the Russian Public Opinion Study Center (VTsIOM) told Interfax on Dec. 14.
The center polled 1,200 Ukrainians in 40 cities between Dec. 1-6.
Ten percent of the respondents said they would not vote.
Thirty-four percent said they would vote for Victor Yanukovych (his rating is 47% in eastern regions). Eleven percent would vote for Sergey Tigipko, ten percent for Yulia Tymoshenko (19% in western regions), six percent for Arseniy Yatseniuk (ten percent in western regions), three percent for Petro Symonenko, and two percent for Volodymyr Lytvyn and Oleh Tiahnybok.
Three percent said they would vote for President Victor Yushchenko.
Seven percent said they would vote for none of the candidates.
Forty-nine percent said they would never vote for Yushchenko. Thirty-eight percent would never vote for Tymoshenko, while eighteen percent would never pick Yanukovych.
From the lesser known candidates, seven percent said they would never choose Inna Bohoslovska, Oleksandr Moroz and Vasyl Protyvsikh. Six percent would never vote for Tiahnybok and Yatseniuk, five percent said they’d never pick Lytvyn, four percent would never go with Serhiy Ratushniak, and two percent would never pick Mykhailo Brodsky.
As for the second round of the presidential vote, the respondents would prefer Yanukovych (45%), Tigipko (27%), Tymoshenko (19%), Yatseniuk (17%), Lytvyn (8%) and Symonenko (7%).
