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14.5%, and leader of the Opposition Platform - For Life party of Yuriy Boiko - 11.4%.
Over half (57.1%) of Ukrainians would no longer vote for Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy if elections were held this weekend​, according to poll carried out by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) and the Socis centre in mid-February.
Only a quarter (27.9%) of respondents would support him, significantly down from the 76% of the vote Zelenskiy won in the 2019 elections.
Zelenskiy still remains the most likely victor in any elections, but his closest rivals are steadily closing the gap. Some 18.3% of respondents would vote for Zelenskiy, some 13.8% for former President Petro Poroshenko, some 8.3% for opposition leader, former Prime Minister and head of Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party Yulia Tymoshenko, some 8% for head of the Opposition Bloc Yuriy Boyko (aka Boiko) and 5.8% for Head of the Strength and Honour party Ihor Smeshko.
Some 89% of the respondents voted for the decrease in the number of MPs in the Verkhovna Rada from 450 to 300, while 6.5% did not support the idea and 4.5% of the respondents could not decide on the answer, according to the poll, as cited by Interfax Ukraine.
Zelenskiy’s decision to close down TV stations associated with his political rival and head of the pro-Russian Opposition Platform – For Life party, Viktor Medvedchuk, some 58% of the respondents said the decision did not change their attitude to Zelenskiy, some 20% improved their attitude, some 17.4% disapproved. 4.5% of respondents found it difficult to answer.
Just under a quarter (24.6%) of Ukrainians would vote to re-elect Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy ​if a presidential election were held this weekend, but only one in five (21.9%) would vote for his party Servant of the People (SOTP), according to a poll conducted by the Social Monitoring Center from February 19 to February 28, Interfax Ukraine reported on March 4. Among those who said they will definitely vote in a presidential election, 16.3% of respondents would vote for one of the leaders of the pro-Russian Opposition Platform - For Life of Viktor Medvedchuk; 15.1% for former President Petro Poroshenko of the European Solidarity party; 11.1% for leader of the Batkivschyna party Yulia Tymoshenko; and 5.2% for leader of the Strength and Honor party Ihor Smeshko. The margin of error ranges from 1.1% to 1.9%.
The Servant of the People presidential party would take 21.9% in the parliamentary elections ​according to a poll conducted by the Social Monitoring Center if they were held within the next week, according to the poll. That is enough to make it the biggest party in Ukraine, but only just. Among those who decided to go to the polls, some 21.3% would vote for the pro-Russian Opposition Platform - For Life party, some 15% for the European Solidarity party, some 11.3% for Batkivschyna and 4.9% for the Strength and Honor party.
Life has gotten worse for almost two thirds (61.5%) of Ukrainians, due to rising utility tariffs​, according to a poll from Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) and the Socis center conducted in mid February. Another 26.7% said it had worsened insignificantly, in 10.3% of respondents, the increase in tariffs did not affect financial position. According to the poll, some 42.1% of Ukrainians say that their family has enough money only for living. At the same time, some 29.6% of respondents said they only have enough money for food, and 24.5% are enough for everything they need, some 2.7% said they live in full prosperity.
16​ UKRAINE Country Report​ March 2021 ​ ​www.intellinews.com