SSG Survey - Basescu Would Have to Go Past Vadim

Traian Basescu would be once again the first voting option of the Romanians if they were to vote next Sunday. However, Basescu would have less than 50% of the votes and would go to the second round with the next in line, Corneliu Vadim Tudor. This is the conclusion of a SSG (Social Studies’ Group 2000) survey made between the 20th and 27th of January 2006 on 1.086 people and was requested by Multimedia Political Communication.

PRESIDENT

Only 48.2% of the responders would vote for the present President Traian Basescu if they were to vote for the President next Sunday. The next in line is Corneliu Vadim Tudor, for whom 16.3% of the responders voted. Adrian Nastase with 10.4% and Mircea Geoana with 10% are on the 3rd and 4th place respectively.

PARLIAMENT

The J. T. (Justice and Truth) Alliance is still on the 1st place for the parliamentary elections, with 41% of the interviewees voting for it. SDP (the Social Democratic Party), 26.9%, GRP (the Great Romania Party), 17.5%, DUHR (the Democratic Union of the Hungarians in Romania), 4.9%, NGP (the New Generation Party) 3.5%, the Conservatory Party, 3.3%, and NIP (the National Initiative Party), 1.2% are the follow-ups. The rest of the parties received less than 1% votes. 1.7% didn’t know or didn’t want to answer, 16.8% are undecided, and 9.6% of the responders wouldn’t vote.

EVALUATION

43% of the responders think that the present Executive is not capable of leading the country, while 38% count on the abilities of the Tariceanu Cabinet. On the other hand, when asked to appreciate the activity of Traian Basescu, 54.8% of the interviewees saw it as good, and 6.7% think it is very good. 27% of them have a very bad opinion on the President’s activity, 7% have a very bad opinion. The activity of Prime Minister Tariceanu is seen as good by 34.3% of the responders and very good by only 1.3%. 33.5% of them see the activity of the PM as being bad and 24.1% think it is very bad. The survey has a 3% error margin. (Aniela Nine)

IN THE TOP

As for the favorite daily newspapers, the SSG survey shows that 22.5 % of the interviewees read Jurnalul National most often. Libertatea, with 18.3%, Adevarul, with 14.3%, Evenimentul Zilei, with 13.7%, Curierul National, with 7%, and Gandul, with 6.8%, take the next places. In the top of the most trustworthy journalists or political analysts, Cristian Tudor Popescu takes the first place, followed by Ion Cristoiu, Marius Tuca, Robert Turcescu and Silviu Brucan.

Translation by Sorin Balan