The first opinion poll of the year from Belgium’s Dedicated agency, published late last night, is only the second nationwide survey in 2017 that covers all three main components of the country (Flanders, Wallonia and the Brussels capital district). Since Dedicated’s last research in December, there have been some striking movements in two […]
Month: March 2017
Czech Social Democrats pull back ground, but still face huge task
This month’s CVVM poll, published today, is the best of 2017 for the Czech Republic’s largest parliamentary party. The CSSD (Social Democrats) of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka move up to 22 per cent, an advance of 2 points on CVVM’s February survey and well ahead of results from some of the country’s six other polling […]
Junior coalition partners frozen out by Iceland voters
Both the governing Independence Party and the biggest opposition group, the Left Green Movement, achieve their best scores of 2017 in today’s University of Iceland opinion poll commissioned jointly by the Fréttabladid newspaper, its publisher Visir and sister TV channel Stod 2. At 32.1 per cent, Independence is polling at 5.5 points above this month’s […]
German Greens at lowest since 2008 with GMS
Today’s monthly poll from GMS confirms that the great ‘Schulz surge’ is running out of steam, as other researchers have shown in the last fortnight. While the SPD gains slightly (up two points on a weighted projection, half a point on ‘raw’ figures) to reach 31 per cent, this is nothing like the huge advance […]
Comic relief comes to Serbian race
Satirical candidate Luka Maksimovic, running under the alter ego of Ljubisa Preletacevic Beli, is currently providing the best challenge to strong favourite Aleksandar Vucic of the ruling SNS coalition in Serbia’s Presidential race, according to the latest polling. With Vucic cruising on 53 per cent of voting intentions in yesterday’s Ipsos Strategic Marketing poll for […]
Italy: 5 Star opens up 5 point lead
Today’s Ipsos PA poll for Milan’s Corriere della Sera newspaper confirms a significant shift in Italian voting intentions, with the Movimento 5 Stelle opening up a 5.5 per cent lead of the governing PD – after a period when the country’s two biggest forces have bascially been polling neck-and-neck. The reported score of […]