These data were presented today during a press conference on the results of a sociological survey on the topic: "Voters' attitude to the current political situation in Ukraine" by the general director of the company "FOM – Ukraine" Oleksandr Bukhalov. The survey was conducted on July 13 in 125 populated areas of the country; 1,500 respondents aged 18 and over took part in it; the margin of error is +/-2.6%.
The research data show that the "Ne Tak" and "Pora – PRP" Blocs would have each received one percent, and the Lytvyn Bloc and the Vitrenko Bloc – 0.9% each.
The number of citizens who would vote against all is increasing – 9.7%, and those who would not take part in the elections – 8.4%.
The Party of Regions would have received the most votes in the east – almost 64.9%, and 56.4% – in southern Ukraine. The Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc would have been the leader in the west, north and center of Ukraine. "Our Ukraine" would have had the best results in the western part of the state – 22.8%.
The majority of citizens assess the situation in the Verkhovna Rada as a "mess", "chaos" – 42.8%. Another 18.7% believe that a struggle for power is taking place in the Verkhovna Rada between oligarchs and representatives of financial-political groups.
According to the research conducted by "FOM-Ukraine", 14% of respondents believe that the anti-crisis coalition is better than the orange one,
8.7% recognize the betrayal of the orange coalition by the socialists, 3.5% of those polled are satisfied that at least some coalition has been created, 2% consider the events of the last week taking place in the Ukrainian parliament to be a normal democratic process, and 1.5% call the situation in the VR a success of the political process in Ukraine. 4.5% of respondents each had heard insufficiently about the parliamentary events and find it difficult to assess the situation.
Answering the question about their attitude to the "anti-crisis" parliamentary coalition, 18.3% expressed a positive assessment, and another 20.2% of respondents have a "rather positive than negative" attitude toward the newly created coalition. Neither positive nor negative – 16.4% of those polled, while 23.8% of voters perceived such a coalition as entirely negative and another 14.2% as rather negative. To the question of how Viktor Yushchenko should act in such a situation, the respondents' answers were distributed as follows: lead negotiations between all forces – 29.2%; support the anti-crisis coalition – 25.3%; dissolve parliament – 23%; not interfere in the situation – 7.6%; indifferent – 6.7%; find it difficult to answer – 8.3%.
In the West of Ukraine, as in the regular elections in March of this year, the majority would be received by the Tymoshenko Bloc – 38.1%, the "Our Ukraine" Bloc would be supported by 22.8% of residents of Western Ukraine, the Communist Party – 1.7%, and the Party of Regions – 4.6%.
