51% of Ukrainians believe that people are much smarter than politicians - survey

51% of Ukrainians believe that people are much smarter than politicians - survey

Only 10% of respondents intend to give the right of representation to a person without political experience.

The majority of Ukrainians surveyed believe that the country should be governed by a representative from the people, not necessarily associated with politics, that is, without any specific political experience.

The majority of Ukrainians believe that the country should be governed by people from the people, and not by representatives of the ruling elite (43% versus 19%). But what’s interesting: if they ask specifically whether you want to be represented in politics by an ordinary citizen, and not a professional politician, the number of populists sharply decreases and is equal to the number of pragmatists,” commented on the results of the sociological study Oleksiy Haran, professor at the Kyiv-Mohylyanska Academy, scientific Director of the Ilk Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation.

Fully agree with the statement that it would be good if the interests of a particular voter in politics were represented by an ordinary citizen, only 10%. Slightly more citizens – 21% – answered that they rather agree than disagree. In general, 37% of respondents were undecided on this issue.

32% of citizens did not agree or did not agree at all with this approach – the deprofessionalization of representation.