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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy leads presidential polls with a share of 23.5% of decided voters, maintaining a 10.1% lead over ex-president and leader of the European Solidarity party Petro Poroshenko, who got 13.4%. Zelenskiy’s support 2.5 years into his presidency is 6% down from the result he scored in the first round of the presidential election in 2019, when 30% of Ukrainians backed him. Poroshenko is 2% down from his 2019 result. Other candidates polled below 10%.
According to the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, 58.6% of Ukrainians did not approve of Zelensky in December (up from 56.9% in October), while only 26.4% did (down from 28.2%). Moreover, 45-46% of respondents to the institute's survey supported the idea of early parliamentary or presidential elections. Interestingly, according to polling from the same agency (as reported by RIA Novosti), if parliamentary elections were to have been held in late November, former president Petro Poroshenko's European
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