Less than half of the citizens believe that the DPS will win the next elections, according to the public opinion survey by the "Defacto" agency.
The poll, which was conducted in March, showed that 47,5 percent of citizens believe that DPS will win the next elections, which is 11 percent less than in October last year, while 40,5 percent of citizens did not have an answer to the question of who could be the winner of the next election.
Methodologist Miloš Bešić claims that a large number of citizens still believe in the victory of the DPS, indicating that more than six percent of respondents do not believe in the victory of the opposition. Emphasizing that the number of those who believe in the invincibility of the DPS has significantly decreased, he recalled that in 2007, 70 percent of citizens believed in their victory.
Bešić believes that the decline in confidence was influenced by protests due to price increases, the poor economic situation in the country and the poor handling of the Government in unpleasant situations: "Positive messages about investments, constructions and new jobs are no longer coming from DPS, but the crisis is being mentioned more and more often. , reduction in the number of jobs and savings. You simply have a trend that seriously questions their effectiveness, and that is very important to people".
He believes that the integrity of DPS was affected by the scandals surrounding the privatization of Telekom and KAP, but also by the fact that the new Prime Minister Igor Lukšić failed to protect the Government from the crisis like his predecessor:
"The fact is that you no longer have a leader with such charisma as Milo Đukanović was at the head of the government. He managed to defend the Government even in situations where it was not easy, until the new Government instills that kind of trust in the citizens. If you want, he is not able to demonstrate the kind of power that Đukanović was able to demonstrate".
The protests have widespread support
A survey conducted on a sample of 1.000 residents showed that 79,7 percent of citizens support the protests against the Government, 6,7 percent do not support them, while 13,5 percent have no opinion.
Do you support the recent protests?
Protests are fully supported by 46,5 percent of citizens, 30 percent support them if they are due to an increase in the price of electricity, while 2,8 respondents support them if they are directed against the government. The research also showed that 22,6 percent of DPS voters and 27,5 percent of SDP voters support the protests unconditionally, and if they are against the increase in electricity prices, and not because of other things, an additional 45,8 and 49,3 percent, respectively.
"Almost every other citizen supports the protests, regardless of their form"
"Almost every second citizen supports the protests, regardless of their variant, which means that the capacity for change is somewhere around 50 percent. The 30 percent who support them only because of the increase in electricity prices are people who cannot be attributed to political motivation, who are fighting for their social position, but are not ready to turn that support into a political plan through protests," explains Bešić.
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