12.03.2013
Attitude to the law on the recall of deputies
- According to a study conducted by the Rating Group, the absolute majority of respondents (81%) support the adoption of a Law of Ukraine on the Recall of Members of Parliament. Only 13% do not support it, and 6% are undecided.
- The initiative is popular across all regions and among voters of different parties. The only slightly lower support is observed in Donbas and among voters of the Party of Regions, where the share of undecided respondents is the highest.
- According to the majority of respondents (61%), a member of parliament should be recalled by voters.
14% believe this should be done by voters but initiated by the party, and another 14% believe it should be exclusively the prerogative of the party that nominated the candidate.
Another 12% believe recall should be carried out by a court: 7% think the court should decide independently, while 5% think it should be done at the initiative of the parliamentary majority. - Additionally, 5% believe only parliament should recall a deputy, and another 5% believe this should be done by the President.
10% were undecided on this issue. - As with the previous question, opinions among respondents from different regions and supporters of different parties are largely similar.
- More than half of respondents believe deputies should be recalled for corruption offenses and for failing to fulfill campaign promises.
Nearly 40% believe deputies should be recalled for betraying state interests and failing to fulfill obligations declared in the oath. - About one third support recall for systematic absence from plenary sessions and committee meetings, and the same share supports recall for failing to uphold publicly declared ideological commitments.
26% believe deputies should be recalled if they switch to another faction, and 22% — for non-personal voting.
Only 4% were undecided on this issue. - Recall for corruption offenses is most strongly supported by voters of the Communist Party and UDAR.
Recall for failing to uphold ideological promises is most supported by voters of the Party of Regions.
Recall for switching factions is most supported by voters of Batkivshchyna and Svoboda.
The strictest punishment for systematic absence from parliamentary work is most supported by Communist Party voters.
Methodology
- Survey population: residents of Ukraine aged 18 and over
- Sample size: 2,000 respondents
- Method: face-to-face formalized interviews using a questionnaire
- Margin of error (95% confidence):
- near 50%: ≤ 2.2%
- near 30%: ≤ 2%
- near 10%: ≤ 1.3%
- near 5%: ≤ 1%
- Fieldwork period: February 22 – 28, 2013
- Regional distribution:
- West: Volyn, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Rivne, Ternopil, Chernivtsi
- Center: Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy
- North: Kyiv city, Kyiv region, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Chernihiv
- South: Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Sevastopol
- East: Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv
- Donbas: Donetsk, Luhansk
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