STA, 15 November 2021 - The ruling Democrats (SDS) would garner 17% of the vote if a general election was held this Sunday, followed by the opposition Social Democrats (SD) at 13.9% and the Left at 8.1%, the latest Vox Populi survey shows. The share of undecided voters has however increased to almost a third.
The opposition Marjan Šarec List (LMŠ) would place fourth at 7.3%, coalition New Slovenia (NSi) polled at 6.6% and the opposition Alenka Bratušek Party (SAB) at 4.3%.
The opposition Pensioners' Party (DeSUS) and National Party (SNS) would each garner 1.2%, and the coalition Modern Centre Party (SMC) 0.3%.
Among the non-parliamentary parties, the People's Party (SLS) would win 1.7% of the vote, whereas 1.6% of the voters would vote for some other party such as a party of parliamentary Speaker Igor Zorčič, should he found one, the Pirates, Truth, Good State, Positive Slovenia, or the Greens of Slovenia.
The share of those who do not know which party they would vote for keeps rising, and was up 2.3% to 32.7% from October, while 4.1% would not go to the polls, down 0.4 points.
Compared to last month, support increased for the NSi (1.3pp), the LMŠ (1pp), the SDS (0.2pp) and DeSUS (0.1pp), while it dropped for the SAB, Left, SMC, SD and SLS, from 0.8pp to 0.1pp.
A total of 67.4% of those polled consider the government's performance successful, down half a point from October, and 28.8% see it as unsuccessful, up 1.5 points.
MEP and former NSi leader Ljudmila Novak tops the popularity rankings, followed by Health Minister Janez Poklukar, who pushed President Borut Pahor to third spot.
The survey was carried out by Ninamedia for the newspapers Večer and Dnevnik over the phone among 700 people between 9 and 11 November.
