JRL NEWSWATCH: “Pre-election poll gives Poroshenko highest ‘anti-rating’ of all presidential candidates” – Kyiv Post/ Daria Shulzhenko
“… [incumbent President] Petro Poroshenko is facing an uphill battle for re-election …. Nearly 50 percent of Ukrainians won’t vote for Poroshenko under any circumstances, according to [a] poll … conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, the Razumkov Center, and the Rating Group sociological organization. … giv[ing] Poroshenko the highest ‘anti-ranking’ …. The poll shows presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko, who heads the Batkivshchyna (‘Fatherland’) political party, leading …. [with n]early 20 percent of respondents who have already decided … [and] plan to vote … [for] her. … Tymoshenko’s ‘anti-ranking’ stands at 27 percent [yet] she is also the top candidate for president in virtually all regions ….”
[poll numbers gleaned from the article:]
- Tymoshenko 20%
- comedy actor Volodymyr Zelensky (undeclared) 11%
- Poroshenko 10%
- Civic Position party leader Anatoly Grytsenko 9.9%
- Opposition Bloc party leader Yuriy Boyko 8.7%
- Radical Party leader Oleh Lyashko 7.6%
- Okean Elzy rock singer Svyatoslav Vakarchuk (undeclared) approximately 5%
The election is planned for March 2019.
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