Monday
21 july 2008
18:30
Baloha’s rating climbing in conflict-torn Lviv
33.1% of respondents polled by Sotsinform on June 20 – July 10 in the Lviv oblast believe that Ukraine is gripped by a heavy political crisis, Sotsinform director Olexy Antypovych told ZIK July 21.22.7% of the polled believe Ukraine is in chaos, against 7.2% who think that a normal political process is going on and 5.8% who think that the country is undergoing a radical change. Simultaneously, 15.9% of Lviv oblast residents have not seen any radical changes and 14.7% could not give any answer.
Among the nation’s leaders Yulia Tymoshenko is the most trusted one, with 68.2% and against 25.1% who distrust her. Speaker Arseny Yatseniuk also enjoys significant level of support, with 48.9% (35.8%), as well as Pres Yushchenko, with 43.4% against 48.1%. Yury Lutsenko is behind, with 35.3% against 51.9%, Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, with 28.3% against 50.9%, Volodymyr Lytvyn, with 13.2% against 72.6%, and Viktor Baloha, with 9.2% against 66%. Viktor Yanukovych lags way behind, with 6.5% against 85.5%.
Voter preferences are a bit different regarding support for the presidency. The list is topped by Yulia Tymoshenko, with 43.7% backing her for president, followed by Viktor Yushchenko with 10.3%, Arseny Yatseniuk with 9.7% and Viktor Yanukovych with 2.7%. Only 2.5% of Lviv oblast residents see Yury Lutsenko as president, with 1.4% for V. Lytvyn, 0.8% for Petro Symonenko and 0.4% for Oleksandr Moroz. 8.5% of residents would vote against all, 6.3% would skip the voting and 12.6% couldn’t answer.
Only Svoboda has beefed up its approval ratings, Sotsinform director O. Antypovych says. If the early parliamentary elections were held next week, Svoboda would get 6.9% of the vote, BYUT 46.3%, Our Ukraine 11.1%, Party of Regions 3%. Simultaneously, People’s Self-Defense with 2.1%, Lytvyn bloc with 1.5%, Communists with 0.8%, Socialists with 0.4%, United Center with 0.3% would not make it to pareliament. 9.5% would vote against all, 6.8% would skip the vote, and 10.4% of respondents found it difficult to answer.
Comment by ZIK
The Sotsinform poll was ordered by the Lviv oblast council and included 2,400 respondents, with the permissible error at 2.4%.
United Center party was created on March 18, 2008 and is headed by Viktor Baloha’s insider and VR lawmaker Ihor Kril
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