Ukrainians trust the Armed Forces of Ukraine and are ready to vote for Zelenskyy—Razumkov Center

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Diana Polunina

If the presidential elections were held in the near future, then Volodymyr Zelenskyy, incumbent head of state, would have won the most votes in the first round: almost 29% of those who intend to vote and have made their choice, and 19% of all respondents would vote for him.

This is stated in the results of a survey by the Razumkov Center.

The next in the rating are:

the fifth president Petro Poroshenko (10% of all respondents and 16% of those who would vote and have make their choice);
Yuriy Boyko, Co-chairperson of the faction Opposition Platform—For Life (9.7 and 14.6%, respectively);
leader of the Batkivshchyna (Fatherland from Ukrainina) party Yulia Tymoshenko (8.1% and 10.9%, respectively);
the head of the Strength and Honor party Ihor Smeshko (3.9 and 5.9%, respectively).

Other politicians scored less than 3% of the respondents.

At the same time, in the case of a rivalry in the second round with Poroshenko, Zelenskyy would gain 28% of the votes of all respondents and 61% of the votes of those who will take part in the elections and have made their choice, the fifth president—17 and 39%, respectively.

As for the elections to the Verkhovna Rada, the Servant of the People party would have won the most votes (17% of all respondents and 27% of those who will take part in the elections and have made their choice, in June there were more than 28% of those).

The next in the rating are:

European Solidarity (10.7 and 17%, respectively, in June this figure was 19.1%);
Opposition Platform—For Life (10.7 and 16.2%, respectively, in June there were 15% of them);
Batkivshchyna (8.2 and 11.4%, in June there were 10.5% of them);
Strength and honor (4.2 and 5.9%, in June there was 6% of them).

Other parties did not gain 5% of the votes required to get into parliament.

The Razumkov Center also asked Ukrainians about trust in social institutions. It turned out that most of the respondents do not trust the Russian media (79% of Ukrainians), 76% of respondents do not trust the state apparatus, 75%—the Verkhovna Rada, 74%—the judicial system, 72%—the government and political parties. The Armed Forces of Ukraine (68%) have the greatest trust among Ukrainians, volunteer organizations (64% of Ukrainians), and the church, which is trusted by almost the same number of people, received a little less votes.

Trust of Ukrainians in social institutions. Screenshot: Razumkov Center

The poll was conducted from July 29 to August 4 using a personal interview method. The Center interviewed more than 2,000 people aged 18 and over in all regions of Ukraine, except for the occupied territories.