Over 52% of respondents in Armenia support Tavush for Homeland movement to certain extent, Gallup phone poll shows
YEREVAN, 15 May. /ARKA/. A total of 35.1% respondents in Armenia said they “fully support” the Tavush for Homeland movement, Aram Navasardyan, head of the Armenian office of GALLUP International Association, said at a press conference on Wednesday.
Navasardyan announced that 17.8% of respondents answered they feel “more than positively” about the movement, 10% - “more than negatively”, 23.5% - “absolutely negatively”; 13.6% of respondents found it difficult to answer the question.
“We also asked people how they learn about the developments. 67.6% of respondents answered they followed the events on social media, 39.3% said TV, 4.8% said other electronic media, 1.6 % - the radio, 19.7% more told us that they do not follow, and 0.2% found it difficult to answer,” Navasardyan revealed.
He also said that 72% of respondents answered that they do not participate in the movement at all, 15.3% followed or are following the developments on Facebook, 9.4% participated or are participating in rallies in Yerevan, 5.3% - joined rallies in other settlements, while 2.3% either block or keep blocking roads and intersections, 0.4% boycotted classes, and 0.3% held or are holding a strike.
“27.5% assessed the actions of the movement as “completely positive”, 24.6% - “more than positive, 14.7% - more than negative, 22.7% - completely negative, 10.5% found it difficult to answer. 26.9% assessed the actions of the police during the movement negatively, 21.5% - more than positively, 19.6% - more than negatively, 17.7% - found it difficult to answer, 14.3% - completely positively,” Navasardyan noted. .
He said also that some 41.1% of respondents of a public opinion poll in Armenia evaluate the work of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan “completely negatively”
Another 18.7% assess it ‘more than positive,’ 18.6% ‘more than negative,’ 9.1% ‘completely positive,’ and 12.5% found it difficult to answer, A total of 1,000 respondents took part in the telephone survey conducted on May 13-14.
The phone survey, conducted on 13-14 May, involved 1,000 respondents.
Activists of the Tavush for Homeland movement, led by the Primate of the Tavush Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, began a march towards Yerevan from the village of Kirants on 4 May and have been holding rallies and acts of disobedience in the Armenian capital and provinces of the country since 9 May. The supporters of the movement disagree with the Armenia-Azerbaijan border delimitation and demand the resignation of Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.0-
