Thursday, September 7 2023 16:33

ArmInfo. In the middle of the pre-election campaign of the political forces of Armenia for the  Yerevan Council of Elders elections to be held on September 17, the  current deputy mayor Tigran Avinyan (from the Civil Contract party)  continues to be the leader among Yerevan residents in terms of the  number of votes, 16.3% of respondents are ready to vote for him.

Then he is followed by Yerevan former mayor Hayk Marutyan (National  Progress Party) with the support of 11.8% of the votes and Andranik  Tevanyan (Mother Armenia bloc of parties) - 5.1%.

The head of the MPG consulting company (Marketing Professional  Group), which represents the Gallup International Association in  Armenia, Aram Navasardyan, stated during a press conference on  September 7, presenting the results of the "Mayor's Witnesses" survey  related to the upcoming elections of the Yerevan Council of Elders.   The remaining votes were distributed as follows: 3.8% of those polled  will vote for the Country to Live party, 3.6% for the Public Voice,  3.4% for Republic 3.3% for Lusavor Hayastan", 2.7% - "Victory", 1.9%  - "Fair Armenia", 1.5% - "Power of Motherland", 1% - "For Social  Justice", "European Party of Armenia", "Democratic Justice", "United  Armenia" 0.9% each. 22.8% of those polled found it difficult to  answer, and 20% refused to talk about their political preferences at  all.

At the same time, when asked whether citizens would take part in the  elections to the Council of Elders, 55.3% answered that they  definitely would, 14.5%- rather yes , 7.8%- rather no, 19.3%-  definitely no, 3.3% -found it difficult to answer. Navasaryadn noted  that in the last poll, about 70% of respondents expressed their  readiness to take part in the elections.

The survey also showed that only 30.6% of the total number of  respondents familiarized themselves with the election campaigns of  candidates, which is 7.4% more than was registered a week earlier. Of  this number, citizens showed the greatest interest in the programs of  the "Civil Contract" party (43.3%), 15.1% of respondents  studied the  programs of the "National Progress" party, 14.3% - "Country to Live",  7, 8% - "Mother Armenia", 6.1% - "Republic", 4.9% - "Public Voice",  2.9% - "Fair Armenia", 2.7% - "Victory", 1.6% - "Lusavor Hayastan",  1.6% - "Power Country", - "Democratic Consolidation" and "European  Party of Armenia- 1.2% each ",  "United Armenia" and "For Social  Justice" 0.8% each. 15.1% of respondents noted that they had  familiarized themselves with all the programs of the declared  candidates, and 20% found it difficult to answer.

Mostly, respondents got acquainted with programs through television  (39%), through social networks - 34.3%, booklets - 28.2%, during  meetings in courtyards - 11%, 2.4% - through live broadcasts on the  Facebook social network, through advertising in the media - 1.6%, on  billboards - 1.2%, in media publications - 0.6%, and the percentage  of respondents receiving information directly through the party  website remains scanty (0.4%).

It is noteworthy that only 6% of respondents took part in meetings  organized by political forces.  To the question: do you consider the  post of Yerevan mayor to be a political position, or is it rather a  position of administrator/manager, 44.1% of respondents answered that  this is a post of manager. (14 percent decrease in votes compared to  April of this year), 41.3% are sure that this is a political position  (an increase of 5%), 14.6% found it difficult to answer.

Aram Navasardyan noted that the company will present the latest  survey on the election of the mayor of Yerevan on September 14.

The survey was conducted through telephone calls to residents of  Yerevan from September 5 to 6, 2023, the sample size was 800 people,  the sampling error was +/- 3.5%. In 2011, MPG became the official  representative of the International Gallup Association in Armenia.  Since 2003, MPG, working in the market of sociological and marketing  research, has implemented more than 800 projects of various sizes.