Poll: Over third of MPs not sure whether to participate in parliamentary elections

Over a third of the Verkhovna Rada’s MPs have not decided whether to participate in the parliamentary elections, according to the findings of the poll of MPs conducted by the Gorshenin Institute.
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Over a third of the Verkhovna Rada’s MPs have not decided whether to participate in the parliamentary elections, according to the findings of the poll of MPs conducted by the Gorshenin Institute.

“About 39.4% of those polled haven’t decided concerning their participation in the parliamentary elections,” expert of the Gorshenin Institute Maryna Tkachenko reported during announcement of the survey in Kyiv on Monday.

According to her, 6.1% of MPs are not going to take part in the elections for Rada.

“If you add the 4% of MPs that didn’t answer this question, than today 10% of MPs probably won’t run for the Verkhovna Rada,” Tkachenko said.

According to the research, 39.6% of Ukrainian MPs are planning to run for the Verkhovna Rada in majority constituencies and 10.9% in party list voting.

As Gorshenin Institute expert Volodymyr Zastava noted, the poll showed that most MPs supported a parliamentary-presidential form of government.

“MPs consider the parliamentary-presidential form of the government the best for Ukraine, 43.5% of them supported it,” Zastava said.

Almost 25.9% approve of the parliamentary form of the government. Only 17% of MPs favor the presidential-parliamentary form of government and 12.2% are for the presidential form of government. 1.4% of the Verkhovna Rada members found it difficult to answer, the expert reported.

According to the poll, the overwhelming majority of polled MPs say that next parliamentary elections will be held in October 2012.

“A majority of MPs are ready to stick to the Constitution of Ukraine,” the expert said.

Seven and a half percent of MPs said that the elections for the Verkhovna Rada should be held simultaneously with the presidential ones in 2015, and 2.7% of polled told the elections should be postponed for an indefinite period. 1.4% of those polled found it difficult to answer this question.

One hundred and forty seven MPs from all the factions were polled by the method of individual interview on February 20-24, 2012.