UNIAN
More than a quarter of Ukrainians would name Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko as the country’s politician of the year, according to the results of the survey announced on Monday by the director of the Razumkov sociological center, Andriy Bychenko.
"25.5% of respondents believe that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is the politician of the year, while in second place is Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk with 14.7%," Bychenko said.
"Also, 4% of respondents believe that Oleh Liashko, a leader of the Radical Party, was the top politician of 2014, 2.9% - the same as for Mayor of Lviv Andriy Sadoviy, and 1.7% were for Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov."
In addition, 1% of respondents said that MP and Maidan Self-Defense Force veteran Volodymyr Parasiuk was a politician of the year.
Some 19.4% of respondents could not answer the question, and 16.7% said that there is no politician of the year among all public figures and politicians.
The survey was conducted on December 19-24 by the Democratic initiatives foundation and the Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political Studies of Razumkov in all regions of Ukraine except Crimea. A total of 2,008 people aged from 18 were questioned. The poll’s margin of error is no more than 2.3%.