If legislative elections were held next Sunday, four parties would enter Parliament. The Party of Socialists (PSRM) would gain 37.2% of the vote, the Party “Platform Dignity and Truth” (PPPDA) – 11.9%, the Democratic Party (PDM) – 10.1% and the Party “Action and Solidarity” (PAS) – 8.3%, shows an opinion poll presented by the Association of Sociologists and Demographers of Moldova on July 11, IPN reports.
Some 19.2% of those polled do not know who they would vote for or didn’t want to answer, while 5.9% would vote for no one. Each fifth respondent does not know who to vote for. Of the respondents who formulated a voting option, 49.7% would vote for the PSRM, 15.9% for the PPPDA, 13.5% for the PDM, while 11.1% for the PAS. The rest of the parties would not pass the election threshold.
Chairman of the Association of Sociologists and Demographers Victor Mocanu said the intention to vote for the PPPDA rose because the party’s leader Andrei Nastase played an important role in the early mayoral elections in Chisinau and led the mounted protests. The PDM also went up in polls because it assumed responsibility for doing reforms in Moldova and makes effort to do these and to obtain external financing for them. The results show the picture based on the party-list proportional representation system.
As regards confidence in politicians, President Igor Dodon is trusted by 52% of those surveyed, Prime Minister Pavel Filip by 33%, PPPDA head Andrei Nastase by 29%. According to sociologists, compared with the poll carried out this January, Pavel Filip and Andrei Nastase improved their ratings as the first is perceived by a leader whose team tends to implement reforms and is concerned about the situation in the country, while Andrei Nastase won the invalidated mayoral elections and is considered the leader of the opposition movement in Moldova.
The poll was conducted in 81 localities, except the Transnistrian region, during June 26 and July 7, 2018 and covered a sample of 1,195 persons. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3%.
