ArmInfo. Armenia`s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan enjoys much less confidence now, but most of the respondents would still support the ruling party Civil Contract should elections b held now, according to a poll by the Marketing Professional Group (MPG), exclusive representative of GALLUP International Association in Armenia.
The poll covered three periods: November 2021, May 2019, and September 2018, which enabled more accurate tracking of public sentiments and attitude to political reality and state leaders. In November 2021, 46% of the respondents clearly said that their post-revolutionary expectations were not realized (against 18.3% in May 2019 and 10.9% in September 2018). According to 3.1% of the respondents their expectations were fulfilled (6.6% in May 2019 an 14.4% in September 2018). The ratio between the realized and unrealized expectations was 33.7%10.2% (61.4%/11.4% in May 2019, and 64.2%/7.6% in September 2018).
9.5% of the respondent welcomed the premier`s work (29.9% in May 2019, and 45.4% in September 2018), and 31.3% voiced strongly negative opinions (5.1% and 2.4% respectively). 28.6% of the respondents were inclined to positive than negative assessments of the premier`s work (54.3% and 46,2% respectively), 14.9% were more inclined to negative than positive assessments (8.2% and 3.9% respectively). 15.9% of the respondents found it difficult to answer (2.4% and 2.1%).
14.7% of the respondents completely trust the premier against 39.9% in May 2019 and 60.2% in 2018. As regards the citizens that distrust the premier, the opposite picture can be observed. This November, 39.4% of the respondents said they did not trust the premier (6.2% in 2019 and 3.5% in 2018). 10.2% of the respondents could not answer the question (2.3% and 1.5% respectively). As to Armenia`s Cabinet, it enjoys much less confidence than three years ago. According to the poll results, only 7.8% of the respondents trust the authorities (against 15.5% in May 2019 and 26.5% in September 2018). 10.7% of the respondents could not answer the question (3.8% and 4.6% respectively).
Nevertheless, 25% of the respondents said they would vote for the ruling party Civil Contract in case elections were held now. 14.4% of the respondents would vote for the Armenia bloc, 3.3% for the With Honor bloc, 1.7% for Prosperous Armenia, 1.6% for the Armenian National Congress, 1.4% for the Republic party, etc. Besides, 20.2% of the respondents could not answer the question, 17.9% refused to answer.
The poll was conducted by telephone November 16 to 27, 2021. Sample size 1101, sample error +/- 3%.