Poll: 54.8 Percent Would Vote in Elections for Students’ Ticket, 42.1 for Vucic

Student protests (BETAPHOTO/DRAGAN GOJIC)

If the parliamentary elections were to be held on this day with the participation of the students’ ticket and the ticket around the Movement for People and State with the minority tickets, the students’ ticket would win 54.8% of votes, while the that of Aleksandar Vucic’s movement would be supported by 42.1 percent of citizens, according to an opinion poll by the Sprint Insight agency, conveyed by the Danas portal on July 17.

The poll, carried out from June 23 to July 5, shows that the opposition, if they all ran on one single ticket, including the Get Going for Change and the movements headed by physicians Branimir Nestorovic and Dragan Milic, would win 10.2 percent, while the students’ ticket would then win 45.9 and the Movement for People and State 41.4 percent. As for the students’ May 5 demand for the holding of early parliamentary elections, 33.1 percent of participants “fully support” it, 18.2 percent “mostly support” and 27.4 percent “do not support at all.”

To the question about support to the current authorities headed by President Aleksandar Vucic, 42.3 percent replied that they “absolutely” do not support them, 12.8 percent that they “mostly” do not support them, while 26.8 percent said they “absolutely” support them. Furthermore, 53.5 percent of participants stated that they believed the current authorities were leading Serbia in the wrong direction, while 33.5 percent believed that the direction was good.

The poll showed that the citizens have the most confidence in the church and the military, with students in the third place and university professors – the academic community, in the fourth. If a referendum on Serbia’s joining the EU were to be held the next day, 41 percent of citizens would vote in favor and 40 percent against, with 18.2 percent indecisive.