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2013 02 25

Prime minister and president top Lithuanian popularity polls

Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and President Dalia Grybauskaitė remain at the top of the country's popularity polls, shows a fresh survey published in Lietuvos Rytas daily.
Algirdas Butkevičius
Algirdas Butkevičius / Andriaus Ufarto/BFL nuotr.

According to the poll carried out by Vilmorus polling company on February 7-17, Grybauskaitė is favored by 63 percent of respondents, up by 2 percentage points month-on-month.

The president is still behind the most popular politician Butkevičius whose ratings were virtually unchanged from 64.9 percent in January to 64.4 percent in February.

Rolandas Paksas, MEP who heads the ruling Order and Justice party, was picked as the most popular politician by 32.2 percent of those polled, down by 4 percentage points from the January survey. He was disliked by 34.4 percent of respondents. Viktor Uspaskich, the leader of the Labor Party, was favored by 29 percent and disliked by 44.7 percent (32.6 percent and 39.5 percent last month, respectively).

The least-favored politician in Lithuania was Valdemar Tomaševski, the leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania, preferred by merely 7.2 percent of those polled and disliked by 55.5 percent.

According to the survey, former prime minister Andrius Kubilius, the leader of the Conservatives, was favored by 17.4 percent of respondents and disfavored by 61.7 percent.

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