Klitschko has the highest approval rating

Ukrainians believe Yanukovych is politician and biggest disappointment of the year

Ukrainians believe that President Viktor Yanukovych is the politician of 2012, according to a poll conducted by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the sociological service of the Razumkov Center from December 21 to December 24, 2012.
According to the survey, 15.4% of Ukrainians said that Yanukovych was the politician of the year, and 12.2% said that UDAR Party leader Vitali Klitschko was the politician of the year. Some 9.5% of those polled named former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, 8% Svoboda Party leader Oleh Tiahnybok, 7.8% the leader of the Batkivschyna United Opposition, Arseniy Yatseniuk, and 5% believe that it was Prime Minister Mykola Azarov. Some 3.2% of respondents recognized Ukrainian Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko as the politician of the year, and 2.1% named former Economic Development and Trade Minister Petro Poroshenko.
Almost the same percentage of respondents (15.7%) believe that the biggest disappointment of the year is Yanukovych, 11.8% named Azarov, 7.3% Tymoshenko, 6.3% former Deputy Prime Minister Sergiy Tigipko, 5.5% Ukraine-Forward! Party leader and incumbent Social Policy Minister Natalia Korolevska, 4.2% third Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko, and 3.8% named Yatseniuk. At the same time, 3.6% of respondents said that all politicians in Ukraine were the biggest disappointment of the year.
Some 2.8% of respondents named Klitschko as the political disappointment of the year, 2.6% said that among politicians there were no those who would could be called the disappointment of the year, 2.4% believe that it is former Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn, 2.2% Radical Party leader Oleh Liashko, 1.7% Tiahnybok, 1.2% Symonenko and 1.2% former footballer Andriy Shevchenko.
A total of 2,009 respondents from all regions in Ukraine participated in the survey. The poll's margin of error does not exceed 2.3%.