A third of Ukrainian citizens support the holding of parliamentary elections in the spring of 2011, while one in five people think these elections should be held in September 2012, according to the results of a nationwide survey conducted by the Razumkov Center in November, which were posted on the Web site of the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) newspaper.
Some 32.4% of respondents said that the elections to the Verkhovna Rada should be held in March 2011, while nearly one in five Ukrainians (18.8%) said that the parliamentary elections should be held in September 2012.
Only one in ten respondents (10.5%) supported the holding of parliamentary elections in March 2015. Almost a quarter of the public (24.4%) said that they were indifferent to this issue, while 14% were undecided.
Director of the Sociological Service of the Razumkov Center Andriy Bychenko noted that a relative majority of citizens in all regions in the country supported the holding of parliamentary elections in March 2011, apart from in the southern regions, where most respondents supported the holding of the elections in September 2012 (39.5%). March 2011 is seen as the best date by 23.4% of residents from the southern regions, while March 2015 was favored by 8.9% of those polled.
The survey was conducted by the sociological service of the Razumkov Center in all regions in Ukraine on November 18-22. A total of 2,001 respondents aged over 18 were interviewed. The poll’s margin of error is 2.3%.
As reported, in Nov. 2010 the Verkhovna Rada provisionally agreed to hold the elections in 2012.
