Alliance creeps closer to opposition: poll
TT/The Local/og - [email protected]
Published: 18 Aug, 2014 CET.
Updated: Mon 18 Aug 2014 08:51 CET
With less than a month until Sweden's general election, the governing Alliance is closing in on the opposing red-greens, a new poll showed on Monday.
Monday's fresh poll results showed that if the election was today, the opposing Social Democrats, Left Party (Vänsterpartiet), and Green Party (Miljöpartiet) would get 46.5 percent of the votes. The Alliance, meanwhile, would earn 38.8 percent. "We can catch up," noted Moderate Party spokesman Kent Persson. The results marked a definite improvement for the government, which has jumped 2 percentage points compared to a survey last week - meaning the gap between blocs has closed to 7.7 percentage points. Elsewhere, the Sweden Democrats dropped to 10.9 percent, as did the Feminist Initiative, which earned 2.3 percent of support. The survey was conducted by pollsters United Minds for the Aftonbladet newspaper.
Comments
See Also
Monday's fresh poll results showed that if the election was today, the opposing Social Democrats, Left Party (Vänsterpartiet), and Green Party (Miljöpartiet) would get 46.5 percent of the votes.
The Alliance, meanwhile, would earn 38.8 percent.
"We can catch up," noted Moderate Party spokesman Kent Persson.
The results marked a definite improvement for the government, which has jumped 2 percentage points compared to a survey last week - meaning the gap between blocs has closed to 7.7 percentage points.
Elsewhere, the Sweden Democrats dropped to 10.9 percent, as did the Feminist Initiative, which earned 2.3 percent of support.
The survey was conducted by pollsters United Minds for the Aftonbladet newspaper.
Join the conversation in our comments section below. Share your own views and experience and if you have a question or suggestion for our journalists then email us at [email protected].
Please keep comments civil, constructive and on topic – and make sure to read our terms of use before getting involved.
Please log in here to leave a comment.