For what do the Belarusians want to vote :: Charter'97 :: News

One of the leading sociological services of Belarus has conducted a nation-wide opinion-poll on January 21-31. Dwellers of Belarus (selective choice of 1104 people) were asked topical questions about the possible third term of Lukashenka’s presidency, their relations towards oppositional associations “Free Belarus” and People’s coalition Five Plus, parliamentary elections in 2004 and economical status of people. We propose you to look at the results of this survey.

1. WHAT WOULD BE YOUR ASSESSMENT OF THE PRESENT-DAY ECONOMICAL SITUATION IN BELARUS?

	%
Very good	0,1
Good	5.9
Average	43,6
Bad	35,7
Very bad	8,2
Hard to say	6,0
No answer	0,4

2. WHAT WOULD BE YOUR ASSESSMENT OF THE PRESENT-DAY ECONOMICAL STATE OF YOUR FAMILY?

	%
Very good	0,2
Good	7,0
Average	46,6
Bad	35,8
Very bad	8,5
Hard to say	1,5
No answer	0,4

3. WHAT DO YOU THINK, SHOULD THE REFERENDUM ON CHANGE OF BELARUSIAN CONSTITUTION BE CARRIED OUT?

	%
Yes	25,7
No	44,5
Don’t know/Hard to say	27,8
Refused to answer	2,0

4. IF AT THE REEFERENDUM YOU WILL BE ASKED ABOUT AGREEMENT TO THE ABROGATION OF LAWS THAT ALLOW ONLY TWO CONSECUTIVE PERIODS OF POWER FOR ONE PERSON, IN WHICH WAY WOULD YOU VOTE?

	%
Yes	22,8
No	51,5
Don’t know/Hard to say	20,6
Refused to answer	5,1

5. IF THE ELECTIONS TO THE CHAMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES WERE HELD IN NEAR FUTURE, WHICH CANDIDATE WOULD YOU SUPPORT?

	%
Not belonging to any party, but supported by the authorities	12,3
A candidate of a political party	4,1
A candidate of the wide coalition of social and political and forces	6,8
Independent candidate	31,3
Don’t know/Hard to say	40,0
Refused to answer	5,4

6. DO YOU KNOW THAT THE PEOPLE’S COALITION FIVE PLUS WAS CREATED IN BELARUS?

	%
Yes	12,9
No	87,1

7. TO WHAT EXTEND DO YOU TRUST THE PEOPLE’S COALITION FIVE PLUS?

Filter= question 6 – YES (142 respondents)	%
Completely trust	7,6
Rather trust	33,6
Rather do not trust	17,4
Distrust completely	6,9
Don’t know/Hard to say	34,5

8. DO YOU KNOW THAT THE EUROPEAN COALITION “FOR FREE BELARUS” WAS CREATED IN BELARUS?

	%
Yes	15,8
No	84,2

9. TO WHAT EXTEND DO YOU TRUST THE EUROPEAN COALITION “FOR FREE BELARUS”?

Filter= question 8 – YES (175 respondents)	%
Completely trust	4,6
Rather trust	33,7
Rather do not trust	22,4
Distrust completely	11,5
Don’t know/Hard to say	27,8

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