More than 72% Belarusians have trust in President
Belarus. A Vision of the Future sociological poll conducted by the EcooM Analytical Centre together with the National Academy of Sciences’ Sociology Institute reveals how many Belarusians have trust in certain government institutions and the Head of State
“In general, 72.3 percent of respondents have trust in the President,” Sergei Musiyenko, the Director of the EcooM Analytical Centre, commented. “This is 5.8 percent more than it was a year ago during our previous survey: the figure was 66.5 percent then. In my opinion, this is a good indicator of work, and also a reflection of what has been done over a year. We have also registered a very high increase in confidence in the army and law enforcement agencies.”
According to the First Vice Rector of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, Svetlana Vinokurova, these figures speak of the unity of our people. “A high level of trust seen in this percentage ratio indicates that our people – jointly with state authorities and law enforcement agencies – are striving to maintain stability and an existing stable vector of development at these high speeds,” she said.
Ms. Vinokurova also spoke of the trust in the Head of State, “On the one hand, the figure of the President is always the most vulnerable one and, on the other hand, it is the most demonstrational. We see what is happening with ratings of heads of state in the neighbouring countries which change their leaders quite often but are not yet a model of positive movement in the field of the economy, social guarantees, and so on. The President is the guarantor of the Constitution. He is the guarantor of the policy pursued by our state. The goals of the state policy have been defined, and our society continues to focus on preservation of social guarantees – on what the Head of State also guarantees us.”
“More than two thirds of respondents have trust in government institutions,” the Director of the National Academy of Sciences’ Sociology Institute, Nikolai Myslivets, added. “There are not so many those who somehow avoided the answer or chose a negative assessment. This is an indicator of these institutions’ effectiveness.”
