Trump is wrong: Zelensky's popularity is over 50%
Trump is wrong: Zelensky's popularity is over 50%
Washington - In a remarkable statement, President Donald Trump wrongly explained on Tuesday that Ukraine had "started" the war against Russia. This statement caused a lot of sensation. But another unjustified claim about Ukraine caused a sensation in his statements in the media in Mar-A-Lago: Trump indicated that President Wolodymyr Selenskyj's approval rate was only 4 %.
Trump's false claims about Selenskyj's approval values
Trump demanded that Ukraine have been holding its first presidential elections since Selenskyj's election in 2019. However, the Ukrainian constitution no national elections . Since the Russian invasion in 2022, Ukraine has been in the state of war, which is why the Presidential election was canceled for 2024.
Reality of approval in Ukraine
When Trump was asked on Tuesday whether the United States would agree to a suspected Russian demand to "force Ukraine to make new elections to sign any kind of peace treaty," replied Trump: "Well, we have a situation in which we had no elections in Ukraine; where we have war law, especially war law, in Ukraine; where the leader in Ukraine, I think it I'm sorry to say, but it is with an approval rate of 4 %. ”
The actual surveys on Selenskyj
The statement of Trump is anything but accurate. In fact, Selenskyj's approval rate is well over 4 %. In large current surveys, it was even over 50 %. In a statement to reporters on Wednesday, Selenskyj Trump's “4%claim” described as a disinformation from Russia. Wherever Trump does this number - the White House did not respond to a request from CNN - it is alienated from reality.
Keith Darden, professor at the American University and expert on Ukraine, told CNN that a current survey by the "best and most reliable opinion research institute in Ukraine", the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, showed that 57 % of Ukrainian Selenskyj trust. Dard noticed: "No 'approval rates' are asked, but the trust in the leadership, which is very similar in the Ukrainian."
growing support for Selenskyj
Olga Onuch, professor at the University of Manchester, who researched public opinion together with other scientists in Ukraine, CNN reported on Tuesday that her Latest survey , which was carried out from November 22nd to January 7th of this year, showed that "63 % of the Ukrainians either full or tends to agree with Selenskyjs as president ”. She added that her survey was also carried out by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.
the course of Selenskyj's approval values
Tymofiy MyLovanov, President of the Kyiv School of Economics and former Economics Minister of Ukraine in 2019 and 2020, told CNN on Tuesday that "never anything near" an approval rate of 4 % for Selenskyj had existed. Mynovanov referred to a survey from 2021, in which even the lowest approval values of the President were well over 4 %.
Selenskyj's popularity at the beginning of the war in 2022, as surveys Ukrainer familiar him . These figures have fallen considerably since then. But Trump not only explained that Selenskyj had a lower approval rate than in the past.