Ukrainians definitely do not support presidential elections now; parliamentary and local elections are up for debate.
This was stated by the head of the sociological group “Rating” Alexey Antipovich in an interview with BBC News.
As of February of this year, more than 60% of Ukrainians did not support holding parliamentary elections before the end of the war, and today 52% do not support, and 46% support. That is, this is actually a balance, people are ready for these elections. The picture is the same with local elections. On the other hand, about 70% were against holding presidential elections in February, now more than 60%. That is, presidential elections are definitely not supported now. According to Ukrainians, it is currently unacceptable to change the commander-in-chief, says Antipovich.
In his opinion, despite significant support now, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky “already has a huge baggage of negativity that will drag him down and which will be very difficult for him to get rid of.”
The main complaint against Zelensky during any elections will be that he has not changed the country, corruption has not decreased, his entourage, which Ukrainians do not trust, remains near him. “All these complaints existed, and they remain,” the sociologist continues.
Antipovich believes that Zelensky will “definitely claim victory in the presidential elections,” but “Servant of the People,” whose work in parliament is “perceived extremely negatively” by Ukrainians, is unlikely to enter the Verkhovna Rada again.
According to the sociologist, politicians with “Soviet nostalgia for the Pushkin monument and support for the right to speak Russian” still have a chance to appeal to the Verkhovna Rada again.
But does Yuri Boyko have a chance? I even doubt his ability to bring the political force to 5%. Rather, he can play a mobilization role for the “softly pro-Russian” electorate. And some new faces should take advantage of this, who will declare a “special” Ukrainian path and a special Ukrainian Russian language,” he believes.
Let us remind you that if parliamentary elections were held next Sunday, 34% of the votes of voters who had already decided and would go to vote would be received by the hypothetical party of the former commander-in-chief, and now the ambassador of Ukraine to Britain, Valery Zaluzhny. Such data from a sociological study were published by the Social Monitoring Center on Tuesday, November 26, a ZN.UA correspondent reports.
This is the first sociological study conducted since the start of Russia’s large-scale invasion to demonstrate the electoral tendencies of Ukrainians during the great war.
In particular, the results of the parliamentary elections would look something like this:
- Party of Valery Zaluzhny – 34%;
- Party of Vladimir Zelensky – 12%;
- “European Solidarity” by Petro Poroshenko – 9%;
- Party of Kirill Budanov – 7%;
- Dmitry Razumkov’s party – 6%;
- “Fatherland” by Yulia Tymoshenko – 6%;
- “August 24” by Sergei Pritula – 6%;
- Party of Andrei Biletsky – 4%;
- IMPACT Vitali Klitschko – 3%;
- “For peace! During the lifetime” of Yuri Boyko – 2%;
- “Radical Party” of Oleg Lyashko – 1%;
- Party of Alexei Arestovich – 1%;
- “The Voice” (Kira Rudyk) – 1%;
- Another party – 3%.
Director of the Social Monitoring Center Dmitry Dmitruk noted that during the study, sociologists deliberately did not mention the Servant of the People party in order to focus on the potential leadership of the head of the political force.
In general, as sociologists have found, 76% of Ukrainians are ready to participate in the elections if they take place next Sunday. Of these, 54% will definitely participate in the vote and have decided on their views.
The survey was conducted on November 15-21 using telephone interviews among 1,200 respondents on November 15-21. The survey error is 1.8-2.9%.
Source: Racurs
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