BELGRADE -- Ruling DS party leader Boris Tadić and opposition SNS party president Tomislav Nikolić are "almost equally trusted by the citizens", a recent survey showed.
BELGRADE -- Ruling DS party leader Boris Tadić and opposition SNS party president Tomislav Nikolić are "almost equally trusted by the citizens", a recent survey showed.
Source: Tanjug, Press
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The poll was carried out in June in Serbia, excluding Kosovo and Metohija, on a sample of 1,200 respondents.
"A crucial change compared to the surveys conducted several months ago is that the difference between SNS and DS has melted down. SNS is still the first, but now their advantage compared to DS is at the level of statistical error," Vukadinović stated for Belgrade's Press tabloid.
He explained that SNS's rating declined by more than DS's rating went up, which is caused by several events, starting from Nikolić's hunger strike, to the arrest of Ratko Mladić to NATO's summit in Belgrade, "which were not going SNS's way".
The poll shows that the opposition Serb Radical Party currently takes third place as individual party, but would lose the position if the Socialist Party of Serbia - Party of United Pensioners of Serbia - United Serbia (SPS-PUPS-JS) ran the next elections as a coalition.
As far as ministers as concerned, Interior Minister Ivica Dačić received the best grade, followed by Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić and Minister of Labor and Social Policy Rasim Ljajić.
The parties that would also cross the five-percent threshold necessary to win parliament seats are the Liberal Democrats (LDP), the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and the Socialist Party of Serbia, which can, according to this, count on the support of in between 6 and 8 percent of voters.
The results showed that Mlađan Dinkić's United Regions of Serbia(URS) doubled the number of likely votes it would receive in elections compared to the previous period, "probably because of its intensive campaign for Serbia's decentralization" - but would still not win any seats in the next parliament.
Until DSS gets less than 20% of the vote Serbs are signing their own death wish. For all the flag waving and demonstrations its hard to imagine people are only voting for the bought, euro-fanatics. And to add insult to injury, the economy is worse than in 2000. All valuable state assets have been sold for peanuts and freedom is just a synonym for compliance. It leaves us with two possibilities: 1. The polls and votes are totally rigged, or 2. Anyone with a brain and dignity left Serbia a long time ago...I hope everyone enjoys their European trip, I can see the Greeks are waking up from it..
(John, 30 June 2011 08:55)
Too bad that too many people are willing to forget Nikolic's hunger fiasco and ignore SNS' lack of principles. Still the SRS flourishes and without its support the SNS will never form a govt.
(highduke, 29 June 2011 18:40)
Too bad that too many people are willing to forget Nikolic's hunger fiasco and ignore SNS' lack of principles. Still the SRS flourishes and without its support the SNS will never form a govt.
(highduke, 29 June 2011 18:40)
Until DSS gets less than 20% of the vote Serbs are signing their own death wish. For all the flag waving and demonstrations its hard to imagine people are only voting for the bought, euro-fanatics. And to add insult to injury, the economy is worse than in 2000. All valuable state assets have been sold for peanuts and freedom is just a synonym for compliance. It leaves us with two possibilities: 1. The polls and votes are totally rigged, or 2. Anyone with a brain and dignity left Serbia a long time ago...I hope everyone enjoys their European trip, I can see the Greeks are waking up from it..
(John, 30 June 2011 08:55)
Too bad that too many people are willing to forget Nikolic's hunger fiasco and ignore SNS' lack of principles. Still the SRS flourishes and without its support the SNS will never form a govt.
(highduke, 29 June 2011 18:40)
Until DSS gets less than 20% of the vote Serbs are signing their own death wish. For all the flag waving and demonstrations its hard to imagine people are only voting for the bought, euro-fanatics. And to add insult to injury, the economy is worse than in 2000. All valuable state assets have been sold for peanuts and freedom is just a synonym for compliance. It leaves us with two possibilities: 1. The polls and votes are totally rigged, or 2. Anyone with a brain and dignity left Serbia a long time ago...I hope everyone enjoys their European trip, I can see the Greeks are waking up from it..
(John, 30 June 2011 08:55)