If elections to the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada were held next Sunday, only four parties would certainly qualify for the parliament, as is seen from a sociological survey of political sentiments of residents of large Ukrainian cities conducted by SocioStream AG, whose findings were presented at the Interfax-Ukraine office in Kyiv on Friday.
The poll showed that the Opposition Bloc would garner 10.2% of the vote, the Samopomich association 8.1%, the All-Ukrainian association Batkivschyna 6.5%, and the Petro Poroshenko Bloc 5.1%. No other parties would overcome the 5% election threshold, the poll showed.
In particular, only 4.0% of those polled would vote for Svoboda, 2.1% for the Radical Party of Oleh Liashko, 1.7% for the Yarosh State Initiative, 1.5% for Nash Kray (Our Land), 1.2% for Vidrodzhennia (Revival), 0.8% for the Ukrop association, and 0.7% for Civic Position.
All other parties together would garner 3.0%; 22.0% of the respondents said they were still undecided, 9% refused to answer, and 24.5% would not go to polling stations.
SocioStream AG head Olena Boyarkina said the survey of 760 residents of Ukrainian cities with populations of more than 100,000 people was conducted from June 9 to June 27.
