Only 42% of Ukrainians know who Yulia Svyrydenko is without specifying her position – KIIS

The Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenkowithout specifying her current position, is known to 42% of Ukrainians. Among them, 11% of respondents trust her, 19% do not trust her, and 13% have an undecided attitude. About testify the results of a new survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.

If respondents were told that Svyrydenko is the Prime Minister, 76% of respondents said they knew her and were ready to express their opinion. In this case, 31% of respondents trust her, while 26% do not.

Among those who know Svyrydenko, without mentioning her position, the level of trust was 25%, distrust – 45%, and an undecided attitude – 30%. If her position is mentioned, trust increases to 41%, distrust – 34%, and another 25% have an undecided attitude.

"It can be assumed that when we do not tell respondents that Yulia Svyrydenko is the head of the government, even among those 42% who allegedly know her, not all of them really understood who we are talking about," the sociologists noted.

Also, 45% of respondents believe that after Svyrydenko's appointment, the government's activities will not change, while 33% found it difficult to answer. Positive expectations were expressed by 18% of respondents, and negative expectations by 4%.

In terms of regional distribution, when the position of the Prime Minister is mentioned, the highest level of trust is recorded in the West and East, where it prevails over distrust. In the Center and in the South, the level of trust and distrust is at the level of statistical error.

The survey was conducted on July 23 – August 4 on KIIS's own initiative. Sociologists interviewed 1,022 Ukrainians over the age of 18 who live in the government-controlled areas of Ukraine via telephone. The sampling error does not exceed 5.8%. In times of war, a certain systematic deviation is added to the formal error.

• july 17, the Council voted for the new government in Ukraine. The appointment of the package of 13 ministers was supported by 253 MPs. Some politicians lost their positions, while others either retained their old ones or received new ones.
• New minister of Defense denis Shmygal became the new head of the company, the prime minister has been appointed Yulia Sviridenko, and Rustem Umerov became the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.