23.12.2019
Politician and event of 2019
- According to the results of a survey conducted by the Rating Group during December 13–17, 2019, the majority of respondents (47%) consider Volodymyr Zelenskyi to be the politician of 2019 in Ukraine.
- Yurii Boiko, Dmytro Razumkov, and Yuliia Tymoshenko were named by 8–10% of respondents each, while Petro Poroshenko, Viktor Medvedchuk, Sviatoslav Vakarchuk, and Volodymyr Groysman were mentioned by 5–7%.
- Volodymyr Zelenskyi as politician of the year received support across all age and regional groups. At the same time, Yurii Boiko, Viktor Medvedchuk, and Vadym Rabinovych were more often chosen by residents of the South and East, Yuliia Tymoshenko by residents of the Center and West, and Petro Poroshenko by residents of the West. Notably, among supporters of the European Solidarity, Batkivshchyna, and Opposition Platform – For Life parties, the leaders of these political forces were more often chosen as politicians of the year than Volodymyr Zelenskyi. At the same time, among supporters of the Holos party, the Head of State received a higher result than Sviatoslav Vakarchuk.
- Ukrainians consider the release of Ukrainian captured sailors and other political prisoners to be the event of the year (48%), as well as the Presidential elections in Ukraine (44%).
- One in five respondents considers the resumption of negotiations on the situation in Donbas in the Normandy format (Ukraine, Russia, Germany, France) to be the event of the year. Fifteen percent named the elections to the Verkhovna Rada, 13% the qualification of the Ukrainian national football team for the final stage of the UEFA European Championship 2020, and one in ten the strengthening of the hryvnia exchange rate.
Methodology
- Audience: the population of Ukraine aged 18 and older. The sample is representative by age, gender, region, and type of settlement.
- Sample size: 2,500 respondents.
- Survey method: face-to-face personal interviews.
- The margin of sampling error does not exceed 2.0%.
- Fieldwork dates: December 13–17, 2019.
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