Over half of Ukrainians (54.8%) have spoken out against the delegation of additional powers to the president amid the economic crisis, notwithstanding who is elected the head of state, according to a survey carried out by the Gorshenin Institute of Management Issues on August 10-18, 2009.
A total of 2,000 respondents aged over 18 from 160
villages and towns in Ukraine participated in the survey. The poll’s
margin of error does not exceed 2.2%.
Over a fourth of those polled (27%), quite the contrary, said they would support this decision, whereas 18.2% were undecided.
According to the survey, most Ukrainians (70.4%)
said that the quality of their lives depended on who becomes the next
Ukrainian president, including 35.4% of those who think that their
standards of living depend on the president to a great extent and 35%
who think that their standards of living depend on the head of state to
a certain extent.
One in five Ukrainians (21.7%) said that the quality
of their lives by no means depended on who becomes the next president,
while 8% were undecided.
