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On his trip to Washington DC, Governor Shevchenko also met with senior officials within the World Bank (Koen Davidse, Executive Director of the World Bank, Arup Banerji, World Bank Regional Country Director for Eastern Europe and Anna Bjerde, World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia) and the International Finance Corporation (Stephanie von Friedeburg, Interim Managing Director and Executive Vice President of the IFC).
2.2​ ​Poll shows Zelenskiy would win presidential election, but SOTP would come third
A study by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) released on November 11 showed that the ruling Servant of the People (SOTP) would come in third if parliamentary elections were held this Sunday but Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy would still win a presidential election.
If presidential elections were held now the results would be the folowing:
Presidential election
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy
33.3%
Former President and European Solidarity leader Petro Poroshenko
17.3%
Former Prime Minister and Batkivshchyna leader Yulia Tymoshenko
11.1%
Opposition Bloc leader Yuriy Boyko (aka Boiko)
For Life Party leader Viktor Medvedchuk
10.5%
Strength and Honour party leader Ihor Smeshko
9.5%
8.8%
Source: KIIS
Zelenskiy remains Ukraine’s most popular politician but as seen his lead fall steadily from the 72% with which he won the April 2019 presidential election to 40.9% he held in April this year to the currnet 33.3%. The people are losing faith in him, but haven’t given up on him entirely.
The situation with party politics is very different. If parliamentary elections were held this Sunday then the results would be as follows:
Parliamentary election
Opposition Bloc, For Life
22.1%
European Solidarity
19.3%
8​ UKRAINE Country Report​ December 2020 ​ ​www.intellinews.com