22.10.2020

Dynamics of attitudes towards the President's initiative (20-21 October)

  • The results of a survey conducted by Rating Group on October 20–21 recorded a gradual increase in interest in the President’s poll. Thus, 70% of respondents know that President Zelenskyy announced a nationwide poll to be held on election day, October 25 (35% said they know about it well, 35% said they have heard something about it). 29% know nothing about it. A relatively higher level of awareness of the presidential initiative is recorded among residents of regional centers and Kyiv, older respondents, and voters of the parties Strength and Honor, European Solidarity, the Shariy Party, and Svoboda.
  • 43% of respondents have a positive attitude toward the President’s idea of holding a nationwide poll on election day. 30% are neutral and 25% have a negative attitude. Residents of Kyiv and Galicia, older respondents, and voters of the European Solidarity party tend to view this idea more negatively. Younger respondents and supporters of the Servant of the People party perceive this initiative positively.
  • 63% of respondents consider the President’s initiative to be legal, while 23% hold the opposite view. Only supporters of European Solidarity mostly consider the President’s poll illegal. Voters of other parties, in their relative majority, consider the poll to be legal.


Methodology

  • Audience: Ukrainian citizens aged 18 and older in all regions except the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea and Donbas. The sample is representative in terms of age, gender and type of settlement.
  • Sample size: 4,000 respondents.
  • Survey method: CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing). Based on a random sample of mobile phone numbers.
  • The margin of error for the study with a confidence level of 0.95 is no more than 1.5%.
  • Fieldwork dates: 20-21 October 2020.