Only four parties could receive enough votes to enter parliament at the upcoming July 21 election, according to a new poll published by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology on July 10.
According to the new survey, the parties which will overcome the 5-percent threshold for entry are President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People party with 48.5-percent support among decided voters, the pro-Russian Opposition Platform — For Life party with 14.1 percent, former President Petro Poroshenko’s European Solidarity part with 9.2 percent and the Batkivshchyna party of ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko with 6.2 percent.
Two more parties, however, are close to the threshold. They are the Golos (Voice) party of rock musician Vyacheslav Vakarchuk with 4.4 percent of support and the Strength and Honor party of Ihor Smeshko, a former chief of the SBU state security service, with 4.1 percent.
The poll was conducted between June 25 and July 7 and included 2004 respondents all over Ukraine. The margin of error is no more than 3.3 percent for the numbers close to 50 percent and no more than 1.4 for the numbers close to 5 percent.
The parliamentary elections are to be held on July 21.
The 65.9 percent of respondents said they plan to vote, while 48.8 percent said they would definitely vote.
The poll also reveals that Zelensky, who was inaugurated as president in May, has the highest approval rating of 67.8 percent.
The second and third most supported politicians are Dmytro Razumkov, head of Zelensky’s party, with 51.6 percent of approval rating, and Ruslan Stefanchuk, Zelensky’s representative in parliament, with 41.1 percent of support among those who know about him.
Then comes Smeshko with 38.1 percent of respondents having a positive attitude to him and Vakarchuk with 26.7 percent supporting him. At the same time, Vakarchuk’s disapproval rating is 2.8 percentage points higher than his support.
The most unliked politician remains Poroshenko, who was defeated by Zelensky at the presidential election in April. Now 70.1 percent of respondents have a negative attitude toward Poroshenko.
When asked which politician people would like to see as the next prime minister, the majority of the respondents supported Yuriy Boyko, a strongly pro-Russian former energy minister, and leader of Opposition Platform – For Life. Boyko received 12.8 percent support for the prime minister spot.
The next was Tymoshenko, whom 12.3 percent of respondents would like to see at the head of the next government.
The current Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman was third in this list, with 9.7 percent of respondents wanting him to keep his post.
