If presidential elections in Ukraine were held this Sunday, Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych would garner 34.7% of the vote, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko 21.5%, and Change Front leader Arseniy Yatseniuk 17.6%, according to a public opinion poll conducted by the Kyiv International Sociology Institute in June, the Mirror Weekly (Dzerkalo Tyzhnia) newspaper reported.
Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko would get
5.7%, Verkhovna Rada speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn 3.8%, and President
Viktor Yuschenko 3.5% of the vote.
Another 2.2% would give their votes to former
President Leonid Kuchma and 2% to Oleh Tiahnybok, the leader of the
All-Ukrainian Union ‘Freedom’.
Former Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko would get
1.3%, former National Bank Chairman Serhiy Tihipko 1%, Kyiv Mayor
Leonid Chernovetsky 0.6%, Ukrainian People’s Party leader Yuriy
Kostenko 0.2%, and former State Property Fund head Valentyna
Semeniuk-Samsonenko 0.1%.
The other candidates would get in total 2.8%, and 3.1% of the voters would vote against all.
Another 9.5% said they would not cast their ballots and 14.9% are so far undecided whether to go to the polling stations.
The poll also showed that the possible voter turnout would be around 67%.
