Some eight political parties could garner more than five percent of the vote and enter the new parliament, according to the results of a sociological survey conducted by the Social Monitoring Center and the Oleksandr Yaremenko Ukrainian Institute for Social Research.

According to the results of the study presented in Kyiv on Thursday, if parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine next Sunday, 17.9% of respondents who are going to vote and have decided (12.6% of respondents) are ready to vote for the Batkivschyna (Fatherland) Party.

The Civic Position Party led by Anatoliy Hrytsenko is second - 10.7% of respondents planning to vote (7.6% of all respondents), Petro Poroshenko Bloc is third - 9.7% of respondents (6.9% of all respondents).

Next comes Vadym Rabynovych's For Life Party (Za Zhyttia) - 9.6% (6.8%), Volodymyr Zelensky's Servant of the People Party - 9.4% (6.6%), Opposition Bloc - - 8.2% (5.8%), Oleh Liashko's Radical Party - 8.1% (5.7%) and Samopomich - 5.9% (4.2%).

Some 13.2% of respondents said they would not vote in the parliamentary elections if they would be held in the near future, and 16% found it difficult to answer the question.

The survey was conducted by a personal interview method on September 11-18, 2018. Some 2,007 respondents aged over 18 were interviewed in the 24 regions of the country. The margin of error is 1.34-2.24%.