A public opinion poll (Google translation) conducted from 25 February to 4 March 2014 by the Ukrainian Center for Social and Marketing Research shows that, in the presidential election scheduled for May 25,
only 2.5% of respondents say they will vote for Tyagnibok of “Svoboda”; and only 1.6% will for Yarosh of “Pravyy sektor” (Right Sector), the two far-right Ukrainian parties.
Regarding foreign policy, 50.1% of all respondents, and 62.0% of those who say they would participate in a referendum, would "vote for accession to the European Union. 30.7% of all respondents, and 38% of would-be participants, would "vote for accession to the Customs Union with Russia and Kazakhstan Bilorussyu." 9.2% said they wouldn't participate. 10.% refused to answer.
Petro Poroshenko, a wealthy member of parliament, leads with 21.2% of all respondents, 30.9% of those who say they intend to vote and have chosen a candidate.
Vitali Klitschko, the former WBC World Heavyweight Champion , as he styles himself, polls at 14.6% and 21.3%. Klitschko is a member of parliament and leader of the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform, which is said to have "an anti-corruption and pro-European platform." It won 40, of 450, seats in the October 2012 parliamentary elections.
Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister who was imprisoned by Viktor Yanukovych, polls at 9.7% and 14.1%. Tymoshenko was co-leader of Ukraine's 2004-05 Orange Revolution and prime minister in 2005 and from December 2007 to March 2010. Currently, she is undergoing treatment in Berlin's Charite Hospital. She leads the Batkivshchyna or the All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" party.
Acting President Oleksandr Turchyno, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko, and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov — are from the Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) Party. In the 2012 parliamentary election, Tymposhenko's and Klitschko's parties withdraw in favor of each other's candidates in a number of constituencies.
Sergei Tigipko, deputy chairman of Yanukovych's Party of the Regions, polls at 7.1% and 9.6%.
Peter Simonenko, leader of the Communist Party of the Ukraine, polls at 5.0% and 6.4%.
Oleg Tyagnibok, leader of the far-right All-Ukranian Union (Svoboda) Party, polls at 2.5% and 3.6%. In 2004, Tyagnibok was expelled from parliament after "a fiery speech in which he described how Ukrainians, during World War II, bravely fought Muscovites, Germans, Jews 'and other scum,' and then used slurs to refer to the Jewish-Russian mafia, which rules in Ukraine.'” Svoboda won 38 seats in the October 2012 parliamentary elections.
Dmitry Jarosz (Yarosh), leader of the far-right Right Sector party, polls at 1.6% and 2.3%.
Finally, Viktor Medvedchuk, another wealthy oligarch, chairman of the pro-Russian political organization Ukrainian Choice, and father of a goddaughter of Vladimir Putin, polls at 1.0% and 1.3%.
81.9% of respondents say they are certain or likely to vote; 13.1% that they are unlikely or certain not to vote; and 5.0% are unsure.
During the survey, respondents were asked to make their own prediction as to who will be the next president of Ukraine interviewed was asked the following question: "Tell me, no matter who the candidates you support, do you think he still would win the election and become the future President of Ukraine? ".
At the first position is projected Ukrainian breaking yet those candidates P.Poroshenko, Tymoshenko and V. Klitschko. Although, if a high enough rating, V. Klitschko won voters believe something less than Tymoshenko. Almost about half - 48.7% of respondents did not answer this question and make a prediction as to who will be the next president of Ukraine.
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