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Putin would win majority vote in elections - Public Opinion foundation
MOSCOW. June 26 (Interfax) - If presidential elections were held in Russia next Sunday, incumbent President Vladimir Putin would win 46% of votes, according to a recent poll shows. The poll results indicate that Putin's closest rival, Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, would win 13% of votes, and Kemerovo regional Governor Aman Tuleyev would gain 5% of the votes.
Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Yevgeny Primakov would receive 4% each, and Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky, Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov would each win 2%.
Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and Union of Right Forces (SPS) leader Boris Nemtsov could each expect 1% votes.
On Wednesday, the Public Opinion foundation released this information derived from a representative poll of 1,500 respondents. The poll was conducted in 100 populated areas of 44 of Russia's regions on June 15-16.
Compared with a similar poll conducted a month ago, Putin's electoral rating slid by 4%, while Primakov's increased by 2%. Tuleyev's and Luzhkov's ratings have also gone up by 1% each.
The number of people supporting Zyuganov, Zhirinovsky, Yavlinsky, Shoigu, Nemtsov and Kasyanov remains unchanged from the May poll.
On the other hand, when asked for whom they would not vote under any circumstances, 48% of Russians mentioned Zhirinovsky, 33% Zyuganov, 25% Nemtsov, 22% Yavlinsky, 18% Luzhkov, 14% Primakov, 11% Kasyanov, 10% Tuleyev, 9% Shoigu and 7% Putin.
At present, 42% of the respondents rated Putin's work at the presidential post as "satisfactory" (40% in mid-May), 42% (43%) as "good," and 11% (11%) as "bad."
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