{"id":18808,"date":"2016-08-03T17:58:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T14:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/?p=18808"},"modified":"2016-08-03T16:17:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T13:17:42","slug":"kernes-leads-all-ukrainian-poll-for-best-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/2016\/08\/03\/kernes-leads-all-ukrainian-poll-for-best-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Kernes leads all-Ukrainian poll for Best Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.vesti-ukr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Vesti<\/a> launched a series of polls “Best of 25 Years of Independence of Ukraine”, in which everyone can leave the opinion about current and past mayors, athletes and presidents, as well as musical artists, TV shows, books and many other important things, <a href=\"http:\/\/mykharkov.info\/news\/kernes-lidiruet-v-obshheukrainskom-oprose-na-zvanie-luchshego-mera-46052.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mykharkov<\/a> reports (RU).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18813 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/poll.png\" alt=\"poll\" width=\"1201\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/poll.png 1201w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/poll-300x98.png 300w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/poll-768x251.png 768w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/poll-800x261.png 800w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/poll-640x209.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1201px) 100vw, 1201px\" \/>Leader of the mayoral rating is <strong>Gennady Kernes<\/strong> with 66% of voters. In second is a former mayor of Kyiv <strong>Alexander Omelchenko (<\/strong>13%); third is Lviv mayor <strong>Andrey Sadovoy<\/strong>, (10%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are followed by former mayor of Vinnytsia and now Prime Minister <strong>Vladimir Groisman<\/strong>\u00a0(7%); current head of the Dnipro <strong>Boris Filatov<\/strong> (4%) and Odessit <strong>Eduard Hurwitz<\/strong> (2%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18812 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mayor-800x522.png\" alt=\"mayor\" width=\"640\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mayor-800x522.png 800w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mayor-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mayor-768x502.png 768w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mayor-640x418.png 640w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mayor.png 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Surprisingly, in the ranking The Best President of Ukraine,\u00a0<strong>Viktor Yanukovich <\/strong>who fled to\u00a0Russia is in the lead with 62%. In second is “The Future President” (14%). A few years ago, the company <a href=\"http:\/\/rb.com.ua\/eng\/\" target=\"_blank\">Research & Branding Group<\/a> asked Ukrainians, how they see the ideal president. As a result, 53% would like the president of a competent and responsible person, and a strong leader. 41% of respondents said they needed the president to prove his effectiveness, and be able to solve the problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Third is current president <strong>Petro Poroshenko<\/strong> (10%); followed by <strong>Leonid Kuchma<\/strong> (9%), <strong>Viktor Yushchenko<\/strong> and Ukraine’s first president <strong>Leonid Kravchuk<\/strong>\u00a0(2%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18811 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/best-president-800x494.png\" alt=\"best president\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/best-president-800x494.png 800w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/best-president-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/best-president-768x474.png 768w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/best-president-640x395.png 640w, https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/best-president.png 1049w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Take part in the poll for the best city head, best film, or musician, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.vesti-ukr.com\/sprojects\/bestindependence\/30036-luchshie-za-25-let-nezavisimosti-ukrainy\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thekharkivtimes\/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/thekharkivtimes\" target=\"_blank\">Vkontakte<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Vesti launched a series of polls “Best of 25 Years of Independence of Ukraine”, in which everyone can leave the opinion about current and past mayors, athletes and presidents, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,6,15,16],"tags":[5086,5087,5085,53,5084,1751,5088],"class_list":["post-18808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-featured","category-kharkiv","category-ukraine","tag-bestmayor","tag-bestpresident","tag-independenceofukraine","tag-kernes","tag-poll","tag-ranking","tag-yanukovich"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/12279032_673224696114093_6898621950220210600_n-e1470223019438.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18826,"href":"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18808\/revisions\/18826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekharkivtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}