42,3% of respondents believe the President to be the main culprit of the current crisis, with 35.6% of the respondents blamed the current situation on the government, 12,8% — for the Parliament.
These are the results of a national survey conducted in June was registered in Lithuania Independent Institute of socio-economic research (IISEPS). The study surveyed 1512 people, margin of error, according to IISEPS data, is less than 3%, reports BelaPAN.
42,3% of respondents believe the President to be the main culprit of the current crisis. 35,6% of respondents blamed the current situation on the government, 12,8% — for the Parliament. Answering a similar question in March, the majority (48.3 percent) of the respondents blamed the present crisis, government is, 47% — the President, 22.7 percent of the deputies.
According to sociologists, most of the respondents were critical of key provisions of the spring of the message of Alexander Lukashenko to the Belarusian people and the National Assembly”. So, with the statement of the head of state that the government has already taken “all the necessary decisions for the development of the economy” and they “just need to implement” do not agree 55.8% of respondents supported Lukashenko is 31.1%.
More than half of the respondents also did not agree with the President that “the basis of government policy is the concern about man, about the welfare and quality of life of Belarusians” that “the state shall protect the rights, property and dignity of all entrepreneurs who honestly do their job” that “state agencies are able to create every year 50 thousand new jobs” and that “in the world ranking for access to health services of Belarus takes the first place.” About a third of respondents supported these statements.
More than 45% of respondents believe that Lukashenko “depends on corrupt officials,” or even “one way or another interested in the corruption in the country. Over 25% of respondents believe that the President is unlikely to make significant progress because of corruption in Belarus is ineradicable”. A little less than were those who believes that “Lukashenka will be able to achieve success in the fight against corruption after a serious purge of the ranks of officials of the highest rank and tightening the penalties for such crimes”.
According to the researchers, the Belarusians are increasingly critical of perceived changes in the social structure, occurring under the influence of public policies when “the role of the authorities in it is constantly increasing, and the cultural and scientific elite and the common people reduced.”
With the view that Lukashenka relies primarily on the “presidential vertical,” agreed 54.4% of respondents (ten years ago the figure was 37%). In 10 years, according to people, the role of the officials as the support of the President declined from 32.1% to 20.5%. Became less and those who see the main support of the President in the pensioners (21.8% of respondents in June this year against 41,4% ten years ago), rural population (11.5% versus 30.2%), simple men (8.2% versus 34.2%), cultural and scientific elite of the country (4.4% vs 8.3%).
With the fact that Belarus is “only partially my state, and it does not adequately protect the interests of people like me,” agreed 47,1% of Belarusians. Less than 30% supported the view that “Belarus is my country, and it protects my interests”. 15,2% agree that “it’s not my state, it does not protect my interests, and I don’t trust him.”
The number of those who believe that virtually all power in the country concentrated in the hands of Alexander Lukashenko and it goes for the benefit of Belarus, decreased to 31.3% compared to September 2009 (when this opinion was shared by 44.4% of respondents). At the same time, the number of those who are convinced that the concentration of power in the hands of the President “does not give the country anything good”, during this same time grew from 36% to 55.5%.
