Survey shows four Moldovan parties to make it to parliament
Four political parties would make it to parliament, should parliamentary elections be held in Moldova next Sunday, according to an opinion poll conduced by the Marketing and Polls' Institute (IMAS) on 15 April - 3 May.
According to the survey, 43.4 per cent out of those 64.5 per cent of the respondents who said they would participate in the polls would vote for the Party of Communists (PCRM), 25.5 per cent for the Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM), 13.4 per cent for the Democratic Party (PDM) and 7.6 per cent for the Liberal Party (PL). The Our Moldova Alliance (AMN) would not meet the election threshold with only 3.2 per cent.
As many as 1,054 people participated in the poll, of whom 9.5 percent said they would not participate in the elections, and another 26 per cent are irresolute.
As many as 28 per cent of the respondents said they would back the PCRM, 16.5 per cent the PLDM, 8.6 per cent the PDM and 4.9 per cent the PL. The Social Democratic Party (PD) would get 2.5 per cent, and AMN 2.1 per cent. One per cent and less of the voters would cast their ballots for the Christian Democratic Popular Party (PPCD), the European Action Movement (MAE) and the United Moldova Party each.
Thus, the Party of Communists remains at 28 per cent of the net voting intentions with a descendant trend as regards the reliability of the party (35 per cent) and leader Vladimir Voronin (36 per cent). The PLDM becomes the second political force with a net voting intention of 17 per cent. The level of party's reliability is the same as the PCRM's one, 35 per cent, and the confidence in its leader is 39 per cent. At the same time, the PL lost a half of its voters and got to a net voting intention of 5 per cent.
If the constitution is amended and citizens are given the right to elect the president by direct voting, 36 per cent of the voters do not know for whom to vote or gave no answer, 21 per cent would cast their ballots for PD leader Marian Lupu, 17 per cent for Vladimir Voronin, 14 per cent for PLDM leader Vlad Filat, 3 per cent for Zinaida Grecianii and two percent for PL leaders Mihai Ghimpu and Dorin Chirtoaca each. Four per cent of the respondents would vote for other candidates, and one per cent for nobody.
At the same time, 31 per cent of the respondents said that the closest political orientation is the communist one, 23 per cent the liberal one, 12 per cent the social democratic, 2 per cent the Christian Democratic, and one per cent is for the nationalist orientation. As many as 19 per cent of the respondents and said that they have no close political orientation, while 13 per cent said they do not know or gave no answer at all.
The residents' trust in most institutions dropped compared with the poll conducted last October. Thus, only 14 per cent have confidence in justice, 6 per cent in the parliament, 5 per cent in the government, 7 per cent in the city hall, 10 per cent in political parties and 8 per cent in the army and the Church each.
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