About 70 percent of Ukrainian citizens are ready to vote at a referendum for Ukraine’s accession to the European Union and a little more than half would support their country’s joining NATO, according to a poll conducted by the SOCIS Social and Marketing Research Center.
The poll results were released at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on June 14.
Some 68.1 percent of respondents said they would vote for Ukraine’s accession to the EU, 17.1 percent would vote against it, 5.9 percent would not take part in the referendum, and 8.9 percent refused to answer or could know answer.
Some 51.1 percent would answer affirmatively to the question of a referendum on Ukraine’s entry into NATO, 29.4 percent would vote against it, 7.4 percent would not participate in the referendum, and 12.1 percent refused to answer or could not answer.
The study was conducted from May 29 to June 6. Some 4,000 respondents were interviewed. The poll’s margin of error is 1.6 percent.
