Ukraine's former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko leads the presidential rating, shows the public opinion poll Results 2011 conducted by the Razumkov Center on Dec. 9-16.
A total of 16.3% of the respondents surveyed said they would vote for Tymoshenko and 13.3% said they would vote for Yanukovych if presidential elections were held in Ukraine this coming Sunday.
A total of 10.7% of the respondents said they would vote for Arseniy Yatseniuk, leader of the Front for Change party, for Vitaliy Klychko, leader of the party UDAR, and the Ukrainian Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko would get 4.8% of the votes each, and Sergiy Tigipko, leader of the party Strong Ukraine, would get 4.4% of the votes.
A total of 10.7% of the respondents said they would vote against all candidates, 11.9% said they would not vote at all, and 14.7% were un decided.
The poll surveyed 2,008 respondents older than 18 in all regions of Ukraine. The margin of error does not exceed 2.3%.
Tymoshenko has been convicted to seven years in prison for abuse of office while signing the gas supply contracts with Russia in 2009 and cannot run for president under the Ukrainian legislation.
