Batkivschyna party leader Yulia Tymoshenko, Radical Party leader Oleh Lyashko and Ukraine's incumbent President Petro Poroshenko would show the best results if the next presidential elections were to be held in Ukraine in the second half of May.
These were the results of a public opinion survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) for its client on May 13-18. The poll results were published on May 26.
Anton Hrushetsky, who heads one of the KIIS departments, said that Tymoshenko would receive 9.5 percent of vote if all Ukrainian residents aged 18 and above cast their ballots in the elections.
Liashko would come in second with 6.6 percent of the vote, and Poroshenko would take third place with 6.1 percent of the vote.
A total of 5.7 percent of respondents would be ready to support Civil Position party leader Anatoly Hrytsenko, 4.9 percent of those polled would vote for Samopomich leader Andriy Sadovy, 3.8 percent for Opposition Bloc leader Yuriy Boiko, 1.8 percent for DIYA public and political movement leader Dmytro Yarosh, and 1.3 percent for Freedom party leader Oleh Tiahnybok.
A total of 5.3 percent of respondents voiced their support for other candidates.
As many as 8.4 percent of those polled said they would cross out all candidates and would spoil the ballot paper, 19.1 percent refused to take part in the elections, and 27.3 percent of respondents were undecided.
The KIIS public opinion survey was intended to assess citizens’ opinions concerning the president’s recent measures, the appointment of Ukraine’s prosecutor general, the situation surrounding the ‘offshore scandal’, as well as the current electoral rating leaders.
The poll involved 2,039 people aged 18 and above living in 110 towns and villages in all of Ukraine’s regions. In Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts, the poll was conducted only in territories controlled by the Ukrainian authorities.
