Levada Center: 66 percent will vote for Putin

66 percent of Russians are ready to vote for Vladimir Putin. As Gazeta.ru reports, these are the results of the last survey of the Levada Center. Compared to the last survey of the Levada Center, conducted at the end of January, Putin's rating grew by 2 percent. Among other presidential candidates, Gennady Zyuganov leads. If the presidential election took place on the nearly Sunday, 15 percent of voters would vote for him. Vladimir Zhirinovsky would have gained 8 percent, Mikhail Prokhorov - 6 percent, Sergey Mironov - 5 percent.

To the question of whether they supported street protests against violations in organizing and conducting elections and falsification of their results, 10 percent of Russians replied that they "definitely support", another 28 percent "rather support". Almost the same - 26 percent - "rather not support", another 19 percent "do not support" these shares at all. 18 percent of Russians found it difficult to answer.

On February 20, VTIIME CEO Valery Fedorov said that the presidential rating of Vladimir Putin grew to 58.6 percent. "On February 11, the survey took place, and in its results we made the following forecasts. Vladimir Putin gains 58.6 percent of the vote, in second place Gennady Zyuganov with a result of 14.8 percent, in the third - Vladimir Zhirinovsky with a result of 9.4 percent. Mikhail Prokhorov is ahead of Sergey Mironov and receives 8.7 percent. The leader of the Socialist Revolutionaries closes the five candidates with the result 7.7 percent, ”said Fedorov.

According to VTsIOM, 67 percent of the respondents believe that Putin will win in the first round, and 20 percent await the second. A survey, in which 1.6 thousand people from 46 regions took part, was carried out on February 11–12, 2011. The statistical error does not exceed 3.4 percent.

Last week, the Public Opinion Foundation published a survey data, according to which Putin’s rating reached 50 percent, which is enough to win the first round. The VTsIOM, according to his methodology, two weeks ago gave Putin more than 53 percent.

On February 6, Prime Minister Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Prime Minister, said that Vladimir Putin would win the first round of the presidential election. "At least this convincing support that we saw on Poklonnaya Gora, as well as dry figures of sociologists, affirmatively testify to the first round," Peskov said. He also said that the penalty for exceeding the number of protesters on Poklonnaya Gora, who promised to pay Putin, he would give it out of his pocket. “At least he said so,” he explained. “He doesn’t call the amount. They call the authorities of Moscow. If there is such a fine, then Vladimir Vladimirovich said that he would pay him.”

On February 3, the former mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov called Vladimir Putin an effective politician and suggested that in the presidential election he could win in the first round. “I think that he can win the first round,” Luzhkov said in an interview with Kommersant FM. "Putin put up, though not completely, not completely, oligarchs, Putin essentially returned international respect to the country," the ex -mayor said.

Meanwhile, according to the Levada Center survey, 57 percent of Russians believe that the time of stay of one person at the presidential post should be limited to two terms. 22 percent of the respondents do not agree with this proposal, another 22 percent found it difficult to answer. Speaking about the possible changes in the political regime in Russia after the return of Vladimir Putin to the post of head of state, 57 percent of the respondents said that the political regime would not change. 29 percent believe that the regime will become more rigid. 5 percent of respondents expect messages from the authorities.