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note on June 26. "For Poroshenko to have a fighting chance in the March presidential vote, he will need to poll consistently at least among the top three. Otherwise, he can’t make a legitimate case for qualifying for the second-round runoff."
The expert believes that Poroshenko has ex- hausted his resources and talents as president and is entering lame duck status.
"It’s unlikely that modest pension and minimum wage increases can boost his support. And using law enforcement to persecute his outperforming rivals, which has been alleged in recent months, will only backfire and worsen his standing even further," Zawada added. "All the momentum cur- rently is with Tymoshenko and Grytsenko."
Meanwhile, for the parliamentary vote scheduled
for October 2019, 21.6% of decided voters will cast their ballot for Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party.
15.9% of voters are ready to support for Gryt- senko’s public movement, 11.4% for Boyko’s Op- position Bloc, 11.1% for Lyashko’s Radical Party, 10.5% for the pro-Russian For Life party and 7.9% for the Solidarity Poroshenko Bloc.
According to KIIS, the overwhelming majority
of Ukrainians (83.7%) are dissatisfied with the direction the country is heading, according to the poll. At the same time, 43.7% support EU inte- gration and 41.1% support integration into NATO.
The poll, financed by Ukrainian and Western sources, conducted interviews with 2,005 re- spondents between June 7 and 21.