Opinion poll: only four parties to enter Moldova's new parliament
Four parties - the Communist Party, the Liberal Party (PL), the Democratic Party (PD) and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPM) - will enter Moldova's next parliament following the 29 July early parliamentary election, according to the Barometer of Public Opinion poll.
Moldova is to hold an early poll after MPs elected on 5 April failed to elect the president.
The poll was conducted by the Institute of Public Policies (IPP) between 26 June and 10 July among 1,534 respondents. The margin of error is 2.5 per cent.
According to the poll, if the parliamentary election were held next Sunday, the Communist Party would win 31.1 per cent of the votes (down from 36.5 per cent in March), the PL, 13.2 per cent (8.2 per cent in March), the DP, 9.6 per cent (0.7 per cent in March), the LDPM, 7.2 per cent (8.3 per cent in March).
Meanwhile, the parliamentary Our Moldova Alliance (AMN) would gain only 2.6 per cent, the Social Democratic Party 1 per cent and the Christian Democratic Popular Party 0.9 per cent.
When asked for what party they would not cast their ballots, 22 per cent of respondents named the Communist Party, 12.8 per cent the AMN, 10.2 per cent the LDPM, 9.5 per cent the PL, 9.2 per cent the PPCD and 3.6 per cent the PD.
Almost every fourth respondent said that the early election was vitally necessary, while 22.8 per cent stated the opposite.
At the same time, 43 per cent of respondents said that the 5 April parliamentary election was neither free nor fair. Almost a similar number of respondents expressed an absolutely different view.
The opinion poll also shows that about 80 per cent of the population will participate in the 29 July early election and only 5 per cent said they would ignore the election.
At the 5 April election, four parties made it to parliament: the Communist Party, the PL, the LDPM and the AMN. The PD gained then less than 3 per cent. At the 5 April election the threshold was 6 per cent, while at the 29 July election it will be 5 per cent.
AMN leader Serafim Urechean said that the "IPP is playing into the hands of the Communists" and that its opinion polls are not reliable. Urechean quotes an opinion poll conducted by Gallop according to which his AMN would gain 11-12 per cent of the votes at the forthcoming election.
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