Croatia’s ruling conservative HDZ party saw its lowest ratings in any monthly CRO Demoskop poll since May, with the release of November’s survey yesterday. The HDZ slipped 2.2 percentage points, cutting its lead over the opposition Social Democrats (SDP) to single figures for the first time in five months in this series of polls from […]
Month: November 2017
Election result: Slovakia regional elections 2017
While international press coverage of yesterday’s Slovak regional election focussed mainly on the defeat of the right-wing extremist L’SNS, the bigger picture was one of heavy losses for the nationally-ruling Social Democrats of SMER-SD. The party of Prime Minister Robert Fico lost four of its six regional Presidencies to the centre-right opposition – the combined […]
Macron support steady as French reform process takes hold
France’s two main monthly opinion ratings surveys were released today, and they will be re-assuring for both President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe. Despite much controversy surrounding the En Marche! government’s labour, education, taxation, budgetary and policing reforms, there is only the smallest downward movement in French voters’ approval of the two men’s […]
New Dutch coalition lacks polling majority
The first opinion poll since the Netherlands’ new cabinet was sworn in last Thursday, from GfK for Een Vandaag, shows little change on the comparable late September survey – but underlines how the new governing parties have lost support during seven months of marathon coalition talks. Of the four parties in the 12-strong cabinet of […]