ArmInfo. The gap between the party of acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and the bloc headed by the second President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharian are consistently reduced. Consulting company MPG (Marketing Professional Group - the exclusive representative of the International GALLUP Association in Armenia) has published the results of the latest poll around the early parliamentary elections to be held on June 20.
Thus, according to director of "MPG" LLC Aram Navasardyan, according to the results of the poll, the majority of citizens still intend to take part in the parliamentary elections to be held in June this year. In particular, 55.3% of the respondents noted that they would definitely go to vote, 11.9% - "most likely yes," 10.6% - "most likely not," 20.7% - "definitely not," and 1.5 % - found it difficult to answer.
At the same time, as Navasardyan pointed out, the experience of past years shows that those who say that they are likely to go to the elections, in the end, nevertheless, do not take part in them. When asked if elections were held this Sunday, 22.4% of respondents would vote for the My Step election bloc, 20.6% for the Hayastan bloc. Meanwhile, as the expert explained, the company's specialists have identified a certain dynamics.
Thus, the results of the first poll for February 15,2021 - February 17,2021 showed that 33.1% of respondents would vote for the My Step election bloc, and 7.8% for the Hayastan bloc headed by Robert Kocharyan. Over the past period, "votes for Pashinyan" dropped from about 33% to 22.4%, while "Kocharyan's supporters", on the contrary, recorded an almost threefold increase.
This Sunday, 4.2% voted for the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), 3.9% - for the "I have the Honor" bloc, 2.9% for , 2.1% for the , 1.7% supported the bloc, 0.5% - for the Armenian National Congress, 1.5% - for , 0.5% - for the <5165> party. At the same time, 0.5% would support the party and the Alliance party, the Citizen's Decision - 0.3%, and 0.7% of the respondents presented other options. 13.4% of the respondents refused to answer the question, 9.1% found it difficult to answer.
At the same time, the majority of rural communities and regional cities, respectively, 31.8% and 19.4%, vote for Pashinyan's party. And in Yerevan only 15.1% are ready to vote for him. Meanwhile, more votes for Kocharian's bloc are in Yerevan - 24.6%, in regional cities - 23.4% and in villages - 14.5%. For the PAP, they are also more willing to vote in rural areas - 6.4%, 4.3% in regional cities, 1.7% - in the capital. "I have the Honor" in the capital is supported by 7.3%, 3.4% in regional cities and 1.3% in villages. At the same time, the majority of rural communities and regional cities, 31.8% and 19.4% respectively, vote for Pashinyan's party. And in Yerevan only 15.1% are ready to vote for him. Meanwhile, it is Yerevan taht gives more votes come for Kocharyan's bloc -24.6%. 23.4% in regional cities and 14.5% in villages. Rural settlements are also more ready to vote for the PAP - 6.4%, 4.3% in regional cities, 1.7% in the capital. "I have honor" is supported by 7.3% in the capital, 3.4% in regional cities and 1.3% in villages. The respondents were asked to express their attitude to the actions of government officials and government agencies. In particular, the activities of acting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was positively assessed by 27% of the polled, President Armen Sarkissian - 26.7%, the government - 24.8%, and the National Assembly - 21.9%. At the same time, as Navasardyan noted at the very beginning of the presentation, he originally planned to call it "Cheating", because despite the fact that the pre-election campaign for the early parliamentary elections in Armenia will begin on June 7 and end on June 18 at 12:00 pm, large political parties- the blocs have already started their pre-election campaign. Because of this, according to the expert, minor participants in the pre-election race suffer, since they, unlike the "big players", do not have the appropriate resources, including media. As a result, Navasardyan decided to call the presentation "Idiot, ka?> (Is there an idiot?, Ed. note), due to the well-known developments that took place yesterday in parliament (Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, MP from the ruling" My Step "faction Lena Nazaryan named an independent MP Taguhi Tovmasyan is an idiot. Ed. note) To note, the poll was conducted through telephone calls to residents of Armenia in the period from May 31 to June 4 this year, the sample size was 1101, the sampling error was +/- 3.5%.