Ukrainian Government Approval and Trust Ratings
Results from a recent poll conducted by FOM - Ukraina (Public Opinion Foundation) indicate that overall, Ukrainian citizens are not very trusting of their government. However, over half of Ukraine's population approve of Yulia Tymoshenko's performance as Prime Minister (through February 2,2008).
The following are results from the poll:
Yulia Tymoshenko's Job Approval as Prime Minister (rounded):
Yulia Tymoshenko Job Performance as Prime Minister (rounded):
Current or Former Government Leaders Not Trusted:
The poll, consisting of 2,000 respondents, found 23% of the country trusts nobody in government, while 0.4% trusts everyone. 14.1% of respondents could not answer the question. The poll's margin of error is 2.2%.
The list does not contain many surprises, except for the number of people on the "Not Trusted" list. After everything that has happened in the country since it declared its independence in 1991, the government has a lot of work to do to regain the people's trust. If I lived in Ukraine, I would probably feel the same way, too - I would not know who in government to trust.
The following are results from the poll:
Yulia Tymoshenko's Job Approval as Prime Minister (rounded):
- Approve - 52.7%
- Do Not Trust - 33.6%
- Unable to Answer the Question - 13.8%
Yulia Tymoshenko Job Performance as Prime Minister (rounded):
- Positive - 27.7%
- Excellent - 12.7%
- Satisfactory - 23.6%
- Bad - 16.3%
- Very Bad - 7.2%
- Unable to Answer the Question - 12.6%
Current or Former Government Leaders Not Trusted:
- Viktor Yanukovych (former Prime Minister) - 32.3%
- Oleksandr Moroz (leader - Socialist Party of Ukraine) - 23.0%
- Leonid Kuchma (former President) - 21.9%
- Viktor Yushchenko (President of Ukraine) - 21.6%
- Petro Symonenko (leader - Communist Party of Ukraine) - 19.7%
- Yulia Tymoshenko (Prime Minister) - 19.6%
- Nestor Shufrych (Parliament Member - former Minister of Emergency Measures) - 17.3%
- Yuri Lutsenko (Interior Minister) - 15.9%
- Leonid Chernovetskyi (Kyiv Mayor) - 13.5%
- Taras Chornovil (Parliament Member - Party of Regions) - 12.7%
- Anatoliy Kinakh (Parliament Member - Party of Regions; former Prime Minister) - 10.1%
- Volodymyr Lytvyn (head of Lytvyn Bloc) - 9.8%
- Raisa Bogatyreva (Secretary - National Security and Defense Council) - 9.2%
- Viktor Baloha (Leader - Secretariat of the President) - 7.7%
- Yuri Ekhanurov (Defense Minister) - 6.6%
- Vyacheslav Kyrylenko (Leader Our Ukraine People's Self Defense Bloc) - 6.4%
- Viktor Pynzenyk (Finance Minister) - 5.4%
- Arseniy Yatsenyuk (Speaker of Verkhovna Rada) - 4.9%
- Mykola Katerynchuk (Parliament Member - Our Ukraine) - 4.6%
The poll, consisting of 2,000 respondents, found 23% of the country trusts nobody in government, while 0.4% trusts everyone. 14.1% of respondents could not answer the question. The poll's margin of error is 2.2%.
The list does not contain many surprises, except for the number of people on the "Not Trusted" list. After everything that has happened in the country since it declared its independence in 1991, the government has a lot of work to do to regain the people's trust. If I lived in Ukraine, I would probably feel the same way, too - I would not know who in government to trust.
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