According to a poll conducted by the Public Opinion Fund - Ukraine (FOM-Ukraine) from November 12 through November 24, the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko, the Party of Regions, the Communist Party of Ukraine, the Bloc of Lytvyn, and the Bloc of Arsenii Yatseniuk, if this bloc is formed, could overcome the three-percent threshold for the elections to the Verkhovna Rada.
Ukrainian News learned this from the results of the poll.
The question of the poll was which party or bloc voters would vote for at the elections to the Verkhovna Rada.
Of those polled by the FOM-Ukraine, 18.3% said they vote for the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko, 16.4% said they would vote for the Party of Regions, 5.9% said they would vote for the Communist Party of Ukraine, 3.3% said they would vote for the Bloc of Lytvyn, and 3% said they would vote for the Bloc of Yatseniuk if this bloc were created.
If created, the Bloc of President Viktor Yuschenko would be supported by only 1.9% of voters.
Of those polled, 1.4% said they would vote for the Svoboda Ukraine Union, 1% said they would vote for the Bloc of Natalia Vytrenko, 0.9% said they would support the Bloc of Vitalii Klychko, 0.9% said they would vote for the Our Ukraine People's Union Party headed by its leader Viacheslav Kyrylenko.
The Socialist Party of Ukraine would collect 0.6% of the vote, the European Party would collect 0.4% of the vote, and the Bloc of Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi would collect 0.3% of the vote.
Each of the following parties and blocs would collect 0.2% of the vote: the Ukrainian People's Party, the People's Rukh of Ukraine Party, the People's Self-Defense headed by Interior Minister Yurii Lutsenko, the Bloc of Raisa Bohatyriova if it were created, and the Party of Defenders of the Motherland.
Of those polled, 16.1% said they would not come to polling stations and 15% said they were undecided.
The FOM-Ukraine polled 2,000 respondents aging 18 and over in 160 population centers.
The margin error is within 2.2%.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, according to a poll conducted by the FOM-Ukraine in October, the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko, the Party of Regions, and the Communist Party would come to the next parliament with 21.2%, 19.8%, 4.5% of the vote respectively.
