Experts mark decrease in parliamentary parties’ ratings during week

UFA, 20 August 2018. /Bashinform News Agency, Galiya Nabieva/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/. The electoral rating of the United Russia party rose to 35.3%. There is a decrease in ratings among parliamentary parties during the week: the Communist Party – by 14.7%, the Liberal Democratic Party – by 11.4%, A Just Russia – by 6.2%.

The ratings of approval of the state institutions and parliamentary parties’ activities are generally stable, the recorded positive trend is weakly expressed. These are the data of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VCIOM).

The indicator of the president's activity approval on average increased to 63.1% for the last week. Estimates of the Prime Minister and the Government of Russia work over the past week also slightly increased - 31.3% and 37.0%, respectively.

In the rating of politicians’ credibility, the Vladimir Putin's indicator amounted to 36.9% on average for the week (an increase from 35.9%). The second and third positions in the list went to Sergey Shoigu (14.0%) and Sergey Lavrov (11.1%).

Vladimir Zhirinovsky leads in the non-confidence rating: 29.4% of respondents said they would not entrust him with solutions of important state issues. He is followed by Dmitry Medvedev (27.2%) - decrease from 28.4%.

Initiative all-Russian polls "VCIOM-Sputnik" were held in June-August 2018. The polls involved Russians aged 18 and over. 1000 respondents have been interviewed daily in at least 80 regions up to June 17 inclusive. Since June 18, 1600 respondents have been interviewed daily.