Interfax: Nearly 20% would vote for Poroshenko in presidential elections – poll

KYIV. March 24 (Interfax) – As many as 19.4% of Ukrainians would vote for Petro Poroshenko in presidential elections in Ukraine if such were held now, as is seen from a public opinion survey conducted by the Razumkov Center sociological service presented at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.

Another 6.5% would vote for Lviv Mayor and Samopomich party leader Andriy Sadovy, 3.8% for Opposition Bloc parliamentary faction leader Yury Boiko, 3.7% for Yulia Tymoshenko and Oleh Lyashko each, 2.6% for Anatoly Hrytsenko, 2.9% for Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk, 2.6% for Dmytro Yarosh and Petro Symonenko each, 2.2% for Serhiy Tihipko, 1.1% for Oleh Tyahnybok, and 0.5% for Vitali Klitschko.

The poll showed also that 8.4% of those polled would vote for other politicians, 21.7% would not go to polling stations, and 17.3% were undecided.

The poll of 2,009 respondents aged 18 and older was conducted in all regions of Ukraine except Crimea, the Donetsk and the Luhansk regions from March 6 to 12. Its margin of error lies within 2.3%.

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