Poroshenko Bloc, Radical Party, Batkivschyna, Civil Position to win seats on parliament - poll

The Bloc of Petro Poroshenko, Oleh Liashko's Radical Party, the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Union and the Civil Position party will win seats in the next Verkhovna Rada, according to a survey conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.

KIIS Director General Volodymyr Paniotto said at a press conference on Friday that the public opinion poll was conducted from September 5 to September 13. At the same time, 1,613 respondents were interviewed throughout Ukraine, apart from Donbas. In addition, 361 respondents in Donetsk and Luhansk were interviewed through personal interviews or by phone.

According to the survey, among "very likely voters," i.e. those who will come to the polls and decided for whom to vote, 26% will support the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko, 11% the Radical Party, 8% Batkivschyna, and 6% Civil Position.

Some 4% of those polled are ready to vote for the Svoboda Party, 8% for other parties, and 36% were undecided.

Director of Monitoring, Evaluation and Public Opinion Research at IFES Rakesh Sharma said that the study had been conducted before the announcement that the People's Front Party will participate in the elections, so this political force was not included in the survey results.

The study was conducted with financial support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Under the law, the Ukrainian parliament is composed of parties that overcome a five percent electoral threshold.