Student Ticket Has 44 Percent Support, Regime 41.7 Percent, Poll Says

Djordje Vukadinović/Beta/Miloš Miškov

In a Sept. 30 guest appearance on N1 TV, Djordje Vukadinovic, a political analyst and the editor-in-chief of the New Serbian Political Thought periodical, claimed a public opinion poll his organization conducted in September shows that Serbia’s Oct. 25 snap parliamentary elections will likely resemble a referendum because the majority of voters are giving support to one of two options.

“We have two actors with reason to be satisfied, and almost no one else. These are the ruling party [United Serbia coalition] and the [anti-regime Student Ticket:] The Students Will Win,” Vukadinovic said, stating that the support base for each ticket has grown to surpass 40 percent.

According to him, the university student ticket’s support “has grown a bit more,” from 39.6 to 44.4 percent, while United Serbia’s support has increased from 37.5 to 41.7 percent.

The question is whether a third factor even exists, Vukadinovic added, referring to the oppositional parties that have chosen to run independent of the Student Ticket.

“A referendum-like atmosphere is being created and that threatens all [other options]. Both the regime’s satellites or cohorts and the opposition attempting to run independently. I’m referring to the New Democratic Party of Serbia and the European Serbia [coalition],” the analyst explained and added that the Socialist Party of Serbia, too, “is having problems, but very few at the moment.”

The poll, Vukadinovic stressed, was conducted in early September, prior to the gathering of signatures for the Student Ticket and before The People’s Serbia coalition – comprising the Ecological Uprising, the People’s Movement of Serbia and the New Face of Serbia – opted out of the elections in support of the student movement.