More than two-thirds of Ukrainians are in favor of early parliamentary elections, according to the findings of a sociological survey conducted by the Socis center on Feb. 25 - March 4.
Early elections were favored by 71.6% respondents, opposed by 17.3%,
and 11.1% were undecided, according to the poll findings unveiled at an
Interfax-Ukraine press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.
Nearly half of the respondents (47.3%) support the transfer of power
from the Party of Regions to the opposition; 30.8% do not, and 21.9%
could not answer.
Thirty-eight percent believe the situation in Ukraine will improve
after the transfer of power from the Party of Regions to the opposition,
22.5% said it will get worse, 21.6% believe nothing will change and
17.9% could not answer.
Almost two-thirds of the respondents (64.8%) believe the current
situation requires constitutional change, 13.3% disagree with that view,
and 22.0% could not answer.
More than half of the respondents (58.1%) rate the current domestic
situation as explosive, 40.1% as tense, 1.2% as stable, and 0.6% could
not answer.
The survey was conducted among 2,004 respondents aged over 18 on
Feb. 25 – March 4, 2014, by the primary sociological data collection
method (standard face-to-face-interviewing). The margin of error: +/-
2.2%
