A day after Justice Minister Sylvi Listhaug resigned in order to save Norway’s fragile coalition from collapse, an instant poll from Kantar TNS showed a surge in support for her party, the populist FRP (Progress Party). Listhaug’s highly controversial social media post ten days earlier, implying that the opposition Labour Party (AP) was soft on […]
Month: March 2018
Fine Gael lead cut by half but Varadkar’s popularity hits new high
After an exceptional poll in February giving the minority ruling party an 11-point lead, Fine Gael’s advantage falls back to a more routine five percentage points in today’s Behaviour & Attitudes survey for the Sunday Times. The main opposition Fianna Fail picks up two to reach 27 per cent of voting intentions. Sinn Fein, under […]
Cracks in Orban’s dominance, but Fidesz lead still massive with one month to vote
Controversial Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban continues to enjoy massive opinion poll leads with exactly one month until parliamentary elections on Sunday 8 April. However several recent developments have given his opponents at home and abroad a glimmer of hope that he will not be re-elected with an overwhelming majority. Firstly, while Orban’s right-wing Fidesz-KDNP […]
Election results: Italian Regions 2018
With all eyes on Italy’s parliamentary election last weekend, voting held on the same day for assemblies in two of the country’s most significant regions, Lazio and Lombardia, were somewhat overlooked. In both, regional Presidencies were retained by the incumbent parties – easily in the case of the Centre Right alliance in Lombardia, and narrowly […]
Election result: Kaernten regional parliament 2018
There was some rare good news for Austria’s Social Democrats (SPO) as they turned in an excellent performance in the regional election in Kaernten (Carinthia) yesterday. With nearly 48 per cent of the votes the SPO came within a whisker of an absolute majority in the parliament in Klagenfurt, close to the southern border with […]
Referendum result: Swiss vote to keep TV tax
Swiss citizens voted decisively to keep the country’s TV and radio licence fees in today’s referendum, with a majority of 71.6 per cent against a popular initiative to scrap the tax. All 23 cantons rejected the proposal after an unusually hard-fought campaign centred on the high level of the annual fee at CHF 451 per […]