Poll: Over Half of Serbian Public Would Accept Franco-German Plan for Kosovo

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According to a recent public opinion survey conducted by Faktor Plus and presented on Feb. 13, over half of Serbia’s citizens believe that their government should accept the Franco-German plan for Kosovo as long as it precludes both Serbia officially recognizing the territory’s independence and Kosovo’s membership in the United Nations, while 33 percent of the population is flatly against the plan.

At the same time, the marketing research agency says, as many as 80 percent of interviewees stated that they would reject the plan should it entail recognizing Kosovo and Kosovo entering the U.N.

In his guest appearance on Blic TV, Faktor Plus director Vladimir Pejic explained Kosovo is not an issue that overly interests the majority of Serbian citizens but when incidents occur this situation changes dramatically, and Kosovo becomes a number-one topic across the board.

 
The poll further found that every other Serbian citizen believes that the next proposal offered for Kosovo will be even less favorable for Serbia, while 36 percent believe that “there will be no other proposal” and only 21 percent are confident that “the next plan will probably be better.”

 
With regards to other topics, should elections take place on Sunday Feb. 19, only 39 percent of interviewees would cast a vote.

 
The agency added that, at present, the Serbian Progressive Party has the support of 46 percent of voters, while 10.8 percent support the Socialist Party of Serbia, 7.1 back the Freedom and Justice Party and 4.7 favor the NADA coalition.

Based on their current public standing, three other parties would pass the 3-percent parliamentary threshold should elections take place right now: The Oath Keepers, the Don’t Let Belgrade D(r)own movement and Dveri.