47% of the respondents consider it an unambiguous need to hold early  parliamentary elections

ArmInfo. 47% of the respondents consider it an unambiguous need to hold early  parliamentary elections in the current conditions, 17.9% believe that  the elections are "rather necessary", "most likely not" answered  8.7%, 22.3% - "definitely not", and 4.1% found it difficult to  answer.

The MPG consulting company (Marketing Professional Group, the exclusive representative of the International GALLUP Association in Armenia) published the results of a survey for May 18, 2021- May 21, 2021, reflecting the public's  attitude to the upcoming parliamentary elections.

MPG experts asked the respondents whether it is possible to hold fair  and transparent elections under the current government. 30.8% stated  - "definitely - yes", 14.3% - "most likely - yes", 17.2% - "most  likely - no", 33%, as it turned out, do not unequivocally believe in  this possibility and only 4.7% found it difficult to answer this  question.

Most of the citizens still intend to take part in the upcoming  parliamentary elections in June this year. In particular, 55.7% of  the respondents noted that they would definitely go to vote, 18.3% -  "rather yes", 10.8% - "rather no", 13.9% - "definitely no", and 1.2%  - found it difficult to answer. As Navasardyan noted, if the  indicator remains at this level, it will exceed the turnout in the  last parliamentary elections.

If the elections were held this Sunday, 24.8% of the respondents  would vote for the My Step electoral bloc, 14.3% for the Hayastan  bloc headed by Robert Kocharian, 4.1% for the Prosperous Armenia  Party (PAP), bloc" - 3.1%, the   party - 2.5%, 2% - for , 1.6% supported the  Shirinyan-Babajanyan bloc, " Hayots Hayrenik ", - 1.2%, for the  Armenian National Congress - 1.1%, 0.6% - for "Sasna Tsrer", 0.5% -  for the party <5165>. At the same time, 0.4% - would support the  political initiative "National Democratic Pole", "Fair Armenia",  "Alliance" and "Citizen's Decision", 0.1% - the Communist Party of  Armenia, 1.2% of the respondents presented other options. 13.3% of  respondents refused to answer the question, 14.6% found it difficult  to answer. At the same time, 13.4% of respondents are not ready to  vote for the candidates presented.

When asked how citizens wanted to get acquainted with the programs of  politicians, there were the following answers: television would be  preferred by 41.7%, Facebook - by 20.8%, electronic media - by 19.3%,   7.3% -meetings in the yard, per page parties on Facebook - 5.7%, with  the help of booklets - 5.1%, for external advertising - 3%, print  media - 2%, party web page - 2.1%, radio - 2%, sideboards - 0,6%,  other sources- 18%, 6.8% of the respondents found it difficult to  answer .  At the same time, as it turned out, 47% of respondents took  personal part in the movement that led to the revolution in April-May  2018, and 53% noted that they did not take part.

To note, the survey was conducted through telephone calls to  residents of Armenia in the period from May 18 to May 21 this  year, the sample size was 800, the sampling error was +/- 3.5%.

In 2011, MPG became the official representative in Armenia of the  International Gallup Association, one of the most prestigious and  independent public opinion research organizations in the world. Since  2003, MPG, working in the market of sociological and marketing  research, has implemented more than 800 projects of various sizes.