Five Percentages Separate SDP from the Alliance

A CURS (Center for Urban and Regional Sociology) poll went public yesterday shows that there are five percentages separating SDP (the Social Democratic Party) and the NLP (the National Liberal Party) - DP (the Democratic Party) Alliance in the electorates preferences, while the two candidates of the parties for the Presidency are separated by 8 percentages.

The CURS poll shows that if next Sunday the Presidential elections occur 43% of the Romanians would vote for the SDP candidate Adrian Nastase, followed by the Alliance’s candidate Theodor Stolojan with 35%, then Corneliu Vadim Tudor from GRP (the Great Romania Party) - 15%, Codrut Seres from HPR (the Humanist Party of Romania) - 3%, Lia Roberts (independent) - 3%. Some of the ones interviewed would vote for another candidate, and 31% say they are still undecided or that they wouldn’t vote.

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS. According to the poll, in the case of parliamentary elections next Sunday, 40% would vote for SDP, 35% for the Alliance, 12% for GRP, 5% for HPR, 3% for another party, and 33% of the questioned ones are undecided or wouldn’t vote.

TRUST. The CURS poll also shows that SDP is the party in which trust a lot with 40%. It is followed by NLP with 38%, DP with 29%, GRP with 18%, HPR with 15% and DUHR (the Democrat Union of the Hungarians in Romania) with 7%.

ALLIANCES. Romanians have been also questioned about the best alliance formula for the after the parliamentary elections period. The answers conclude that 21% of the questioned ones believe that the NLP - DP Alliance - HPR is the most proper one for leading the country. The follow-ups are: SDP-HPR - 20%, SDP-GRP - 9%, SDP-HPR-DUHR - 7%, the NLP - DP Alliance-HPR-DUHR - 6%, another alliance 4%. 33% of the questioned don’t know or don’t answer.

The CURS poll has been made using a sample of 3,005 persons at least 18 years old, between the 9th and the 16th of August. The poll’s customer is the Antena 1 Television, this being a part of the Exit-poll 2004 programme.

CURS Poll Graphic