More than half of the polled Ukrainians (61%) find it difficult to classify themselves as left-wing, center-left, centrist, right-centrist or the right according to the classification system of political positions, ideologies and parties, according to a study by the Gorshenin Institute.

According to a study voiced at a press conference in Kyiv on Friday, all the same, 8.1% consider themselves as the right, 5.6% - the center-right, 9% - the centrists, 5.6% - the left, 4.2% - the center-left.

However, Ukrainians are most positive about the social democratic (41.5%), socialist (35.7%) and national democratic (32.5%) ideologies.

The most negative attitude among the respondents was towards the communist (64%), nationalist (54.9%) and conservative (52.3%) political and ideological trends.

During the poll, respondents answered that the Social Democratic principles are not inherent in the main political forces of Ukraine, but they are the closest for the Socialist Party of Ukraine (23.5%), as well as the Batkivschyna (21.4%) and the Samopomich (19.1%), the party For Life (Za Zhyttia) (18.5%), The Opposition Bloc (16.9%), the Radical Party of Oleh Liashko (12.7%), the Petro Poroshenko Solidarity Bloc ( 12.5%) and the People's Front (7.1%).

In addition, 49.5% of Ukrainians are one way or another ready to vote for the newly created party of social democratic political trend, 18% would not vote under any circumstances, 32.5% were undecided.

The study "Attitude of Ukrainians to Social Democracy" was conducted by the Gorshenin Institute in collaboration with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Ukraine and Belarus in July-August, 2018. In total, 2,000 respondents aged 18 years and older were surveyed in all regions of Ukraine, excluding the occupied territories of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the city of Sevastopol, certain regions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The accuracy of the representativeness of the study does not exceed +/- 2.2%.