Zelensky tops presidential approval rating, enjoys over 30% of support – poll

Volodymyr Zelensky / Photo from UNIAN, by Viacheslav Ratynsky

Incumbent President Volodymyr Zelensky would have topped the approval rating if presidential elections had taken place in the near future.

These are findings of a poll conducted by the Rating Sociological Group on May 16-18, which became available to UNIAN.

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If presidential elections had been held in the near future, the votes among those who would vote and who have already made their mind would be divided the following way:

• 30.2% would have voted for incumbent President Volodymyr Zelensky;
• 12.8% would have supported leader of the European Solidarity Party Petro Poroshenko;
• 11.9% would have cast their vote for Co-chairman of the Opposition Platform - For Life Party Yuriy Boyko;
• 11.1% would have voted for leader of the Batkivshchyna Party Yulia Tymoshenko;
• 7.6% would have supported leader of the Strength and Honor Party Ihor Smeshko.

Poll details

• The poll conducted via computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) involved 2,500 respondents aged 18 and older in all regions, except for Russia-occupied territories in Crimea and Donbas.
• The margin of error with a confidence level of 0.95 is no more than 2%.