Most Ukrainians Do Not Want Zelenskyy to Serve a Second Term as President — KMIS
More than half of Ukrainians believe that Volodymyr Zelenskyy should limit himself to one term and not run in the next presidential election. These findings were reported by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).
“Currently, 53% believe he should limit himself to his current term (up from 46% in December 2025). At the same time, 42% believe he should run in the next election (down from 45%). The remaining 5% are undecided,” according to a statement from KMIS researchers.
KMIS emphasizes that there is a clear correlation between the level of trust in the president and support for his participation in the election.
“While 85% of those who fully trust the president support his participation in the election, this figure drops to 53% among those who somewhat trust him, and to, respectively, 20% and 7%, respectively, among those who somewhat or not at all trust him,” the sociologists note.
The survey was conducted September 12–21. Using telephone interviews based on a random sample of mobile phone numbers, 1,002 respondents aged 18 and older were surveyed; they reside in all regions of Ukraine under the control of the Ukrainian government.
Residents of territories temporarily not controlled by the Ukrainian government were excluded from the sample. At the same time, some of the respondents are internally displaced persons (IDPs) who moved from the occupied territories. The survey also did not include citizens who left the country after February 24, 2022.
Formally, under normal circumstances, the statistical margin of error for such a sample (with a confidence level of 0.95 and accounting for a design effect of 1.3) did not exceed 4.1% for indicators close to 50%, 3.5% for indicators close to 25%, 2.5% for indicators close to 10%, and 1.8% for indicators close to 5%.
Under wartime conditions, in addition to the aforementioned formal margin of error, a certain systematic deviation is introduced; however, sociologists believe that the results obtained still retain a high degree of representativeness and allow for a fairly reliable analysis of public sentiment.
Source: KMIS
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