Population in anticipation of groundbreaking changes

Population in anticipation of groundbreaking changes - IPSOS survey shows that the main request of voters is the coalition government.

99 seats to all opposition parties, 46 seats to the Georgian Dream, and 5 seats to the Alliance of Patriots - 150 seats in the parliament, according to a recent survey by IPSOS are distributed in this proportion. All indicators directly show that the population of the country wants a change of government. An international research company has surveyed the attitude of the population towards the parties that the voters will have to choose from at the polling station.

When asked - which party would you vote for if the parliamentary elections were held next week? The votes were distributed as follows -

"Georgian Dream" - 25%;
"National Movement; United Opposition "Strength is in Unity" - 15.5%;
European Georgia - 5%;
"Strategy Builder" - 3%;
"Labor Party" - 3%;
"Alliance of Patriots" - 3%;
"Girchi" - 2.5%;
"United Georgia - Democratic Movement" - 2.5%;
"Lelo for Georgia" - 2%;
"Citizens" of "Aleko Elisashvili" - 1.5%
"Free Georgia" - 1%;
Other parties - 3%;
33% of respondents did not directly answer the question whotheir preferred political union is.

It is easy to explain the political picture for the opposition: the government will change at the decisive parliamentary elections in 2020, and the country will most likely have to form a coalition government. If we look at the results of the distribution method, the united opposition parties have much more support from voters than the Georgian Dream and its ally, the Alliance of Patriots.

On the 8th anniversary of his coming to power, the population also sends an open message to an informal ruler - Bidzina Ivanishvili's role in Georgian politics, according to the survey, is assessed as negative by 52%. For 32 % out of 52%, Bidzina Ivanishvili's activities are extremely negative. The same question was asked by the researchers about the candidate of the Prime Minister of the United Opposition - the role of Mikheil Saakashvili, despite 7 years of persecution, is positive for half of the respondents - 50%.

Although the results of the IPSOS survey are almost identical to the data of the CEC, for Ivanishvili's teammates they are still unconvincing and partisan. Another conclusion of the IPSOS study, when comparing the activities of the last two governments, shows that the trust in the previous government is twice as high. 37% of respondents believe that the previous government was better than the present one. Only 17% of voters think that the Dream government is doing better.

Two months before the elections, the international company IPSOS conducted a pre-election poll commissioned by the Mtavari Channel. Citizens across the country were interviewed from September 10 to 18. The survey error is + -2.5%.

The information provided by law is published on our website mtavari.tv, in the section "Elections 2020".