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Experts estimate that Zelensky will have to spend between $ 2 million and $ 10 million on the survey. Photo: Country
Today the Servant of the People party announced that the October 25 vote will be funded with its funds.
“The decision was made at a meeting of the party’s Supreme Council on October 20,” he said in a statement from the party president. ” Servant of the people “will not carry out research on his own, but will conclude an agreement with a company that conducts sociological surveys. Citizens who will conduct the research will be located outside the polling stations. In fact, this is the mouth-of-mouth voting format. urn generally accepted in the world “.
At the same time, according to information from Strana, earlier in the week, the president was supposed to announce that he himself would finance the survey with his own funds.
But then the concept changed dramatically.
“Strana” found out why, how much the survey will cost, and who will actually pay for it.
What and how much will you have to pay
Let’s define the main expense items required for the complete organization of the survey.
1. People who will carry out the survey. In official comments from both the Office, the President and the “people’s servants” call them volunteers, that is, those who work voluntarily and for free. But, according to Strana sources on the president’s team, no one will work for free.
And this is the biggest expense.
According to data from “Strana”, the survey will be conducted in 30 thousand sites. Each will have two people. That is, in total – 60 thousand.
According to sociologists, an interviewer usually receives about 1,000 UAH per working day in the departure field. That is, only people will be needed to pay 60 million hryvnia. And that’s not counting the cost of equipment and logistics.
It is true that the “servants of the people” may try to insist that their work is free and pay them “black money.” But this deception is easily revealed, since only 60 thousand people in the entire country will strictly keep the secret of the payment.
2. Printing questionnaires – Quizzes with five questions from the president (Strana previously analyzed this list in detail). According to the “People’s Servant” People’s Deputy Vasily Mokan, 5 million questionnaires will be printed.
Different printers offer prices ranging from 10 to 25 kopecks per A4 sheet.
If 5 million questionnaires are printed at 10 kopecks per copy (we took the cheapest option), it will cost Zelensky 500 thousand hryvnia.
3. Special urns to collect completed questionnaires. There must be a ballot box at each polling station, which means there must be 30,000 of them.
The price range for clear plastic urns is wide. The minimum price we can find is 300 hryvnia each. Multiply by 30 thousand, we get 9 million hryvnia.
True, another issue is that no one commits to manufacturing 30,000 urns in such a short time. Although, it is possible that the order for its manufacture has been made even earlier.
Four. Calculation of results – salary to those people who count and process the voting results.
However, the experts interviewed by “Strana” are not even sure that the votes will be counted, since generally there is no independent verification and control mechanism over the course of the vote and the determination of its results.
Responding to the question of how much the vote count will cost, political scientist Vitaly Kulik jokingly suggested, “Are you sure that counting is needed?”
“Theoretically, the calculation of the results with the insertion of data in Excel can be calculated at the rate of 1 kopeck per questionnaire”, added the expert.
One kopeck to process 5 million questionnaires – 50 thousand hryvnia.
The total amount will be at least 69 million 550 thousand hryvnia.
Could Zelenskiy afford such a survey?
According to the statement, the income of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his relatives in 2019 amounted to 28,602,468 UAH.
In addition, the Zelenskiy family sold a country house near Kiev this year for 13.5 million UAH.
Zelensky’s bank accounts contain $ 460,936, more than UAH 5 million and EUR 240. Zelensky also declared UAH 1 million 212 thousand as advance contributions.
Zelensky is left with 150,000 UAH, 112,000 dollars and 6,300 euros in cash.
That is, even Zelensky’s entire income and savings are clearly not enough to fund such a large-scale survey.
True, as said above, it would be possible to hide people’s salaries and only highlight the costs of printing sheets and making ballot boxes, but this trick will quickly become known and can cause a big scandal.
Apparently, this is the reason why Zelensky rejected the idea of announcing the financing of the survey with his own funds. And the expenses were borne by the party.
Who will actually pay for the survey?
Sources from the Servant of the People faction told Strana that the survey will actually be funded by funds from party sponsors and big business loyal to the president.
Plus, according to political scientist Viktor Nebozhenko, the Zelensky poll may actually cost even more – tens of millions of dollars. But the official amount of expenses will be indicated below.
“The survey will be funded by two sides: black and white cash. Officially, they will tell us a miserable figure. And they will spend tens of millions of dollars on black, 40% of which will be stolen in the process. The oligarchs will stand down. This poll is purely a lobbying story. He conducts a poll on marijuana himself. It is possible to get money from the Medellín cartel for this, “Nebozhenko believes.
