Almost every second (49 percent) Ukrainian respondent is opposed to the land reform, or rather the cancellation of the existing moratorium on the sales of rural land, and does not support the privatization of public enterprises (47 percent) and the pension reform (46 percent), a poll conducted by GfK Ukraine and Qand Q Research suggests.
According to the poll results announced in Kyiv on July 10, 45 percent of respondents do not support the hospital reform and 38 percent the judicial reform, while 33 percent are against the secondary education reform and 26 percent the army reform. The same share of the public opposes decentralization and 21 percent, large-scale road repair works.
At the same time, 62 percent of respondents favor road repair, 41 percent decentralization and 37 percent army reform. Levels of public support for the other aforementioned changes are lower than that the reform of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has.
A small number of respondents admit that they are aware of the judicial reform (41 percent say they do not know anything about it, with 38 percent saying that they know something but wish to know more and 19 percent believing that they are well-informed). The largest number of people say that they are well aware of the healthcare reform (9 percent claiming to be unaware, 51 percent wishing to know more and 38 percent saying that they are well-informed). The percentage of those claiming that they are well-informed of a reform drops further with regard to the road repair, the decentralization, the pension reform, the land reform, the education reform, the privatization and the army reform, according to the poll results.
The all-Ukrainian poll was conducted by means of telephone interviewing from June 27 through July 1, 2018, with 600 respondents residing in populated localities situated in all Ukrainian regions in a representative sample survey of Ukraine’s population above 18 years of age. The surveys were conducted only in those parts of Luhansk and Donetsk regions controlled by the Ukrainian government. The poll results are within a statistical error of 4 percent.
