Poll: Half of Ukrainians consider dismissing parliament the best way to end crisis

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Kyiv, May 15 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Around half of Ukraine's citizens consider dismissing the current parliament as the best way to tackle the crisis in the country.

These was one of the findings of the poll conducted by the Social Studies Agency and presented in the Interfax-Ukraine by its president, Valeriy Zahorodniuk, on Thursday.

The survey was conducted on May 5-10. Some 2,000 people were polled in all regions of Ukraine. The poll's average margin of error is 2.3%.

According to the poll, some 47.2% of the respondents see dismissing all the parliamentary factions as the best way to resolve the current political and economic situation in the country. Among other findings: 31.7% people advocate formation a new political force, which would lead Ukraine out of crisis, some 21.9% support amending the election system, 19.8% of those polled support simultaneous parliamentary and presidential elections, 14.7% said a broad coalition should be formed and some 10.2% of those polled want revised party programs and new people on voter lists.

If early parliamentary elections are held, some 62.1% of the respondents plan to vote, another 23.7% of the polled would not vote at all, and 14.2% did not give a definite answer.

If the parliamentary elections was held last Sunday, the Regions Party would have gained 21.7%, the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko would have received 14.9%, Arseniy Yatseniuk would have been supported by 8.1%, the Communist Party by 5.0%, the Bloc of Lytvyn by 4.3%, Viacheslav Kyrylyenko's Bloc For Ukraine would have gained 3.4%, Viktor Yuschenko's bloc would have been supported by 2.7% and Svoboda by 2.4%.

Some 89.7% of the respondents think that the economic recession and political instability are getting worse in Ukraine, some 6.2% positively assess government's measures to fight the crisis while 1.3% are sure that the country is in steady development.

Some 91.8% said that the crisis had affected them personally, while 8.2% of the polled said the opposite.

15.05.2009