The "Envelope" affair, the confrontation of the DPS with the Serbian Orthodox Church and the growing awareness of citizens that this is not the way to make progress in the process of European integration, contributed to the decline of trust in the ruling party, according to "Vijesti" interlocutors.
The CEDEM survey, which was presented on Thursday, records a drop in support for DPS by seven percent compared to December last year, and it now stands at 34 percent.
A drop in support was also recorded by the Democrats, who have 14,6 percent of the respondents' support, while DF and URA, to some extent SD, BS, Prava Crna Gora and Demos recorded an increase.
When it comes to the strongest member of the ruling alliance, the director of the Institute of Alternatives, Stevo Muk, believes that this could be the result of numerous affairs since January of this year, as well as that "the public's awareness has grown that in this way no progress can be made in the process of European integration." .
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"Also, I would not underestimate the effect of the most direct, in recent history, conflict between the DPS and the Serbian Orthodox Church, which also enjoys a standard high degree of trust," he told "Vijesti", noting that the results should still be taken with a grain of salt and trends should be followed.
In DPS, even yesterday, they were not ready to comment on the figures that are not in their favor, stating that they are not correct. Unofficially, several sources claim that the last poll, conducted for that party, showed that their support was over 41 percent.
Politikon network director Jovana Marović said that the European Commission's assessments of the state of affairs in the country, primarily the "Envelope" affair, as well as the reaction of state authorities in relation to the case of illegal financing of the ruling DPS, influenced the results of CEDEM's research.
She reminded that the EC in its annual report pointed out the ubiquity of corruption, politicized institutions, unsatisfactory conditions for holding elections, but also assessed that citizens' trust in the electoral process depends on the quick and efficient resolution of the "Envelope" affair.
"Precisely this affair means the continuation of irresponsibility, non-transparency and arrogant behavior of state institutions, as well as the postponement of the necessary cuts and the lack of determination to eradicate undemocratic practices", said Marović.
Speaking primarily about the decline in support for DPS and the Democrats, the executive director of the Civic Alliance, Boris Raonic, said that he would be happy if it could be said with certainty that the citizens recognized who are the entities that are obstructing the dialogue and the way out of the crisis, through autistic or spending policies time, so they punished them in that way.
"There will be some jubilation from the international community, because the decline was experienced by those who did not listen to well-intentioned suggestions," Raonic assessed.
The Delegation of the European Union previously criticized the Democrats for boycotting the parliament.
Compared to the previous survey, their rating dropped by six percent. As in the DPS, in that party they also say that their data show different figures." According to the survey that we receive on a monthly basis, DCG is at 21 percent," said Vladimir Martinović (Democrat) to TV Vijesti, claiming that it is a "false, commissioned survey of DPS, which has an even greater drop in support."
How support for the ruling party fell
In December 2018, DPS had 41,5 percent of support, in 2017 - 39 percent, in December 2016 - 36,8, which was after the October parliamentary elections. In the same year, in June, that support was 43,1 percent. A year earlier in 2015, DPS had 45 percent support.
In July of this year, they are at 34 percent.
Will the opposition analyze the causes of the poor rating
Stevo Muk said that he hopes that every opposition political party will carefully check and analyze the possible causes and reasons for the announced ratings.
Boris Raonic pointed out that more important than the rating of the parties is the fact that the citizens have finally shown their willingness to support those who deal with their problems, regardless of the fact that there is still a significant number of them who react to populist and clientelistic political platforms.
The CEDEM survey showed a general decline in trust in state institutions, but also in its path.
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