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More than half of Ukrainian citizens are positive about the holding of early parliamentary elections, head of sociological programs of Sofia Center Oleksandr Levtsun has said.

“Some 61 percent are positive about the proposal to dissolve the current Verkhovna Rada and hold extraordinary parliamentary elections. In December of last year there were 57.1 percent of such respondents,” Levtsun said, presenting the results of the poll titled “Public request for the renewal of power” at a press conference in the Interfax-Ukraine agency on March 23.

According to the research, 26.6 percent of respondents do not support the holding of early parliamentary elections, and 12.4 percent are undecided.

The survey was conducted from March 9 to March 16, 2018 in all areas that are controlled by Ukraine. Some 2,010 respondents were interviewed at the age of 18 years. The sampling error does not exceed 2.2 percent.