More than 60 percent of Ukrainians believe the country needs new political leaders. Respondents said they may come from existing political parties.
The findings are reflected in a sociological survey conducted by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation with the sociological service of the Razumkov Center from May 19-25, 2018. Results were presented at a press conference in Kyiv on August 1.
According to the results of the survey, 62 percent of respondents believe that Ukraine needs new political leaders, while 27 percent hold the opposite opinion.
The data of the previous survey show that in 2013 less than half (49 percent) favored the emergence of new political leaders, and 37 percent were against it.
A study for May 2018 also showed that 34 percent of respondents believe that new leaders may emerge from the new political forces, while 30 percent believe that they may come from already existing parties.
Some 28 percent of respondents said that new political leaders may come from civil society organizations, while 26 percent said they could come from Ukraine’s humanitarian or technical intelligentsia. Only 17 percent said new leaders could be veterans of military operations in eastern Ukraine.
Almost half (46 percent) of those polled support civil activists entering politics, while 13 percent did not.
Some 2,019 respondents over 18 years of age were interviewed in all regions, except for Crimea and occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The theoretical sampling error does not exceed 2.3 percent.
