21.05.2010
Citizens' support of the form of government in Ukraine: before and after the presidential elections
- In the opinion of the relative majority of respondents, the most optimal form of government for Ukraine is presidential-parliamentary (35%) or presidential (26%).
According to 16% of respondents, the most optimal is parliamentary-presidential, 4% — parliamentary, and 3% — dictatorship. Another 16% did not decide on this issue. - Compared with a similar survey conducted in October 2009 — on the eve of the Presidential election — support for the presidential-parliamentary and presidential forms of government has somewhat increased, while support for the parliamentary-presidential, parliamentary, and dictatorship forms has somewhat decreased. This occurred primarily due to changes in attitudes toward this issue among residents of the South and Donbas after V. Yanukovych’s victory in the Presidential election.
- At the same time, in the West and especially in the North of the country, attitudes toward the presidential-parliamentary and presidential forms of government have worsened, in particular among supporters of BYuT. This happened primarily due to Y. Tymoshenko’s defeat in the Presidential election.
- At the same time, supporters of Our Ukraine and Svoboda remain the biggest supporters of the presidential (from 38% to 44%) as well as the presidential-parliamentary (from 32% to 37%) form of government in Ukraine, surpassing even supporters of the Party of Regions in this indicator.
- Regarding supporters of the Party of Regions, it should be noted that after V. Yanukovych was elected President, the number of supporters among them of the parliamentary-presidential and parliamentary forms has almost halved.
- Supporters of S. Tihipko, like supporters of Y. Tymoshenko, consider mixed systems the most optimal: either presidential-parliamentary (45%) or parliamentary-presidential (19%).
- The parliamentary-presidential form of government is most strongly supported by supporters of the Lytvyn Bloc (35%).
- Communists, on the other hand, traditionally sympathize most with dictatorship (8%). However, despite the fact that party leader P. Symonenko advocated the abolition of the institution of the President in Ukraine, supporters of the CPU continue to consider presidential (36%) or presidential-parliamentary (23%) the most optimal forms of government for Ukraine.
- Respondents with higher education and young people aged 18–29 support the parliamentary-presidential form of government more than others (20%).
- The presidential form was most strongly supported by respondents with a low level of education (36%) and pensioners (31%).
Methodology
- Survey audience: population of Ukraine aged 18 and older.
- Sample size: 2000 respondents.
- Method: face-to-face formalized interview.
- Margin of error: for values close to 50% — not more than 3%; close to 30% — not more than 2.6%; close to 10% — not more than 1.8%.
- Fieldwork period: April 16–24, 2010.
- Regions:
- West: Volyn, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Rivne, Ternopil, Chernivtsi
- Center: Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy
- North: Kyiv city, Kyiv oblast, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Chernihiv
- South: AR Crimea, Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Sevastopol
- East: Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv
- Donbas: Donetsk, Luhansk
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