STA, 15 February 2021 - The ruling Democrats (SDS) enjoy more voter support than last month, having gained 3.5 percentage points to 17.2%, shows the poll run by the newspaper Delo on Monday. The SDS is followed by two opposition parties whose ratings have slightly improved - the Left polled at 10% and the Social Democrats (SD) at 9.5%.
The opposition Marjan Šarec List (LMŠ) was slightly down to 7.1%, whereas the coalition New Slovenia (NSi) polled almost on a par with January, at 4.7%.
All the other parliamentary or non-parliamentary parties would not make it to Parliament, meaning they polled below 4%.
Almost 23% of respondents were undecided, which is practically on a par with January, with the number of those who would not vote for any of the parties dropping by almost 2 points to 11.5%.
On aggregate, the support the opposition parties associated in the informal KUL coalition enjoy is by over nine points higher than the support for the coalition parties.
How the last elections, 2018, left Parliament. Source: Wikipedia
The government approval rating meanwhile improved a bit as the number of those assessing its performance as negative dropped from just over 53% in January to 52.4%.
Over 19% of those polled see the government's performance as average, down from almost 25%, a quarter see it as positive, down from 20.6%, with 1% undecided.
The approval rating for parliament worsened a bit, with 51% assessing it as negative or very negative (up from nearly 47%), 31% as average (down from over 35%) and 15.2% as positive or very positive (up from 14.2%). Almost 3% remain undecided.
President Borut Pahor emerged as the most popular politician yet again, followed by Infrastructure Minister Jernej Vrtovec and Speaker Igor Zorčič. Prime Minister Janez Janša placed 14th, up two spots.
The public opinion poll was carried out by the pollster Mediana among 712 respondents between 9 and 11 February.
