the Ukrainian sociologists record the drop in popularity of President Vladimir Zelensky. According to their data, almost a third of the population is not against holding early elections.
The center “Social monitoring” surveyed more than 3 thousand people, representing all regions and all groups of the population. A report on the study of political attitudes of Ukrainians the authors entitled: “Radicalization in the background of economic and political crises”.
Experts note that during the first year of presidency, Vladimir Zelensky, despite the scandals in his environment and unpopular decisions of the authorities, enjoyed the confidence of more than half of the population of Ukraine. Now the President has full trust 13%; trust in varying degrees, 28.3 per cent; rather than trust 25,4%; do not trust with 24.8%. Comparing the figures, analysts came to the conclusion that the balance of trust/distrust Zelensky for the first time has a negative value is 8.9%. In may 2019 (during the inauguration) Zelensky trusted 34.1% more people than not trusted; by November 2019, the balance had increased to 35.6%. But in January of this year, the index fell to +10.1%, and in early summer moved over the zero mark.
“the Rubicon has been crossed – do not trust the President more than half of voters, every second is not waiting for anything good from Zelensky”, – said political analyst Alexei holomuzki.
In his opinion, this situation became possible because of distrust of Ukrainians to anti-corruption agencies and the justice system. According to the “Social monitoring”, and 47.7% and 35% negatively assessed the efforts of the authorities aimed at combating corruption in the higher echelons (11,3% evaluated relatively positive, 1.3% of positive). In addition, 47.6% of the negatively estimated actions of the authorities to prosecute members of the former government. Another 34,2% – negatively. Progress in this direction note only 10.7% of respondents.
The war in Donbass was one of the reasons for the changed relationship to the Ukrainian leadership. 42,1% praised the actions of the team Zelensky in this matter is very negative, 38.6% of negative (relative to positive of 13.8%, entirely positive 0.9 percent).
Ukrainians were asked to rate proposed by sociologists, the list of problems of the country on a scale. The answers were distributed as follows: a resolution of the conflict in the East (to 4.59), the decline of the economy (to 4.59), the growth of prices, inflation (4,58), the increase in tariffs (4,52), unemployment (4,47), the enrichment of the oligarchs and the impoverishment of the population (4,3), the level of taxes and fees (of 4.23), social injustice (of 4.23), deterioration of infrastructure utilities (4,2), ecology (4,16), the quality and pace of reforms (4,11), the dependence of the state from external control (4,02), emigration of the population, the mass migration of abroad (3,89). Relations with Russia as the main problems of the state received a score of 3.75, and the return to Ukraine of the Crimea to 3.55.
