Austria’s conservative OVP continues to sail serenely towards victory on 15 October, when the country will elect a new Nationalrat. Under Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, the party has polled a consistent 32 to 34 per cent across ten surveys during September, leaving its SPO (social democrat) and FPO (populist right) rivals battling for second place […]
Month: September 2017
Syriza reduces gap to New Democracy as Greece sees chinks of economic light
September polling from the University of Macedonia (PAMAK) for Greece’s Skai TV was released last night and there are rays of hope for the ruling Syriza administration as they cut their deficit to the opposition New Democracy (ND) by five percentage points. PAMAK’s last poll was in June, and after a summer of brightening economic […]
Election result: German Federal Parliament 2017
Both of Germany’s grand coalition partners suffered grim losses in yesterday’s Federal election while the nationalist AfD entered parliament for the first time as the country’s third political force. The CDU/CSU combination led by Chancellor Angela Merkel lost around a fifth of its votes, sinking to a combined total of 33 per cent – both […]
Referendum result: Swiss reject pension reform
Swiss voters voted narrowly against pension reforms in a triple referendum held today, while giving overwhelming support to proposals to improve the country’s food security. The failure of the pension reforms, which would have been financed by an increase in Value Added Tax (VAT), is yet another defeat for attempts to address this controversial topic […]
Final German polls: late boost for AfD as Merkel’s support wobbles
On the eve of the German Federal election, the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) is enjoying a late surge in the polls while support for Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU has slipped back. While she maintains a comfortable 14-point average lead over the struggling Social Democrats (SPD), who also lose ground, gains for the smaller parties suggest […]
Socialist slump continues in Brussels as Défi advances further
Last night’s Ipsos poll for a grouping of Belgian media is only the fourth national survey of 2017 and only the second of the year from this agency. It shows the Francophone Socialist Party (PS) confirmed as being in deep trouble in Brussels, while the liberal regionalists of Défi continue their rapid advance in both […]