Just 9% Of Ukraine Voters Express Confidence In Gov't, Lowest In World - Poll

Citizens of Ukraine will be voting in the upcoming March 31 presidential elections with less faith in their government than any other electorate in the world, a new Gallup poll showed on Thursday

WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 21st March, 2019) Citizens of Ukraine will be voting in the upcoming March 31 presidential elections with less faith in their government than any other electorate in the world, a new Gallup poll showed on Thursday.

"Just 9 percent of residents have confidence in the national government, the lowest confidence level in the world for the second straight year," Gallup's poll found.

"This is far below the regional median for former Soviet states (48%) as well as the global average (56%) in 2018."

In addition, the poll revealed that just 12 percent of Ukrainian adults said they have confidence in the honesty of elections, representing a decline from the 26 percent who held this sentiment in 2014.

Gallup attributed the lack of trust to President Petro Poroshenko's performance in office, noting that successive polls have found that Ukrainians' confidence in him has remained lower than 14 percent since 2015.