Poll indicates anti-EU parties will secure over 60% of seats in Serbia

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According to this poll:
- The Radicals have 42.39%. (Anti-EU)
- Kostunica's DSS at 7.29%. (circumstantially Anti-EU)
- SPS at 6.55%. (Anti-EU, Milosevic's party)
- Tadic coalition at 30.28%. (Western bootlickers)
- Very good news is that LDP has only 2.41% support. (Serbia's Jacobins led by a drug addict)
- 11.08% are for others, minority lists or undecided.

This means that if elections were held today the structure of parliament would be:
- 119 Radicals.
- 83 Tadic's coalition. (4 SPO, 4 LSV, 4 Sanjak Democratic Party (Bosniak also), 19 G-17+, 52 DS)
- 20 DSS-NS (14 DSS, 6 NS).
- 18 SPS.
- 10 minority parties (2 Bosniak, 2 Gypsy, 1 Albanian, 3 Hungarian)

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A different poll indicates the anti-EU parties securing 54% of the seats:
Poll: DS, G17 Plus 105; SRS, DSS 121 seats21 March 2008 | 16:31 | Source: B92, Beta BELGRADE -- A new poll shows that the DS-G17 Plus coalition can count on 105 seats in the parliament.

The TSN Medium Gallup poll results released today say that, if elections were held in the second week of March, the Radicals (SRS) would have stood to gain 95 mandates, while the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) could hope for 26.

In case the two parties opted for a post-election coalition, they would have 121 seats, 5 short of the majority necessary to form government. The Serbian parliament has 250 seats.

The next party that would get more than five percent of votes, the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), would, according to this survey, win 14 seats, while the ethnic minority parties would get 10 mandates in the next parliament.

The Liberal Democrats (LDP), would not cross the threshold, with 3.1 percent of votes.

The coalition gathered around the Democrats (DS) would win 39.9 percent of votes, while the SRS, standing alone, could count on 37.1 percent.

The DS leader, Boris Tadić, is still the most popular politician with 45.6 percent of citizens saying they have a positive opinion about him, followed by Tomisalv Nikolić of the SRS with 41.1 percent.

TSN Medium Gallup conducted the poll March 6-13, on a sample of 1,000 participants.

The parliamentary elections in Serbia are scheduled for May 11.

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Serb Radicals Lead in Latest Poll

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24 April 2008 Belgrade _ An opinion poll published on Thursday shows Serbian ultranationalists leading in the run-up to the May 11 general election.

The survey by the Belgrade-based Centre for Free Elections and Democracy, CESID, found that the Serbian Radical Party, SRS, would have had the support of almost 1.5 million out of 6.7 million voters if the election had been held last week.

Their opponents, the pro-Western Democratic Party, DS, of President Boris Tadic, would have come second with some 1.37 million votes.

Tadic narrowly won a second term as President in early February with 2.3 million votes compared to SRS leader Tomislav Nikolic who got about 2.1 million votes.

The nationalist block headed by Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica’s Democratic Party of Serbia, DSS, together with its junior coalition partner, Nova Serbia, could have counted on just over half a million votes if the election had been held last week.

The survey was conducted between April 14 and April 20 and covered 2,732 pollees from Serbia outside Kosovo.

The poll suggests that between 4.3 million and 6.7 million voters will turn out on May 11.

CESID said the poll results reflect the thinking of some 5.5 million voters.

Serbia's coalition government collapsed in March over differences between nationalists and pro-Europeans on the country’s further relations with the European Union following Kosovo's declaration of independence and the decision by a majority of EU member states to recognise the regime in Pristina.

The only party which advocates accepting the reality of an independent Kosovo, the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, LDP, of Cedomir Jovanovic, would have gained the support of 330,000 voters if the election had been held last week, just enough to cross the five-per cent threshold for the Serbian parliament.
Slightly less support, around 290,000 votes, would have been garnered by the late Slobodan Milosevic’s Socialists.

CESID points to the fact that 12 to 13 per cent of eligible voters, or 800,000 people, regularly do not vote, a figure that reflects the situation in neighbouring countries and other democracies.

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^ The latest poll indicates the following:
- Radicals- 34.88% of the vote= 91 seats.
- Pro-EU coalition- 31.86% of the vote= 83 seats.
- DSS-NS coalition- 11.63% of the vote= 30 seats.
- 7.67% for the LDP coalition= 19 seats.
- 6.74% for the SPS coalition= 17 seats.
- 7.21% for minorities and others= 10 seats for minorities.