Most Ukrainians, 37%, support a majority election system for the country's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, according to poll.
Thirty-one per cent of respondents support a weighted election system with open lists, while 24% of the public considers a mixed election system, as stipulated by the draft law on parliamentary elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, to be the best.
The smallest number of Ukrainians, 6% of those polled, preferred a weighted election system with closed lists.
Moreover, 69% of voters do not support the cancellation of the item ‘against everybody’ in voting papers, while 19% of respondents want this item to be taken out of ballot papers, and 12% of those polled found it difficult to answer.
The majority of the respondents, 39%, do not support a ban on the participation in the parliamentary elections of electoral blocs of parties, while at the same time, 34% of voters are for this ban and 27% found it difficult to answer.
According to the results of the poll, the majority of Ukrainians don’t trust the central bodies of government.
Forty-three per cent of respondents expressed complete distrust in the president of Ukraine, when 23% of citizens mostly don’t trust him, 18% mostly trust him and 9% trusted him completely.
Fifty-one per cent of respondents completely distrust the Verkhovna Rada and 48% of Ukrainians distrust the Cabinet of Ministers.
At the same time, 3% and 4% of voters express complete trust in these governmental bodies.
The poll was conducted from Aug 8 to August 15, 2011, with 1,200 respondents aged 16 to 75 years old polled in 48 cities and 30 villages in all regions of Ukraine.
The poll’s margin of error is 3%.
