If a presidential vote was held next Sunday, Socialist leader Igor Dodon and the leader of the yet-to-be-registered Action and Solidarity Party Maia Sandu would advance to the second round, according to an opinion poll by the Association of Demographers and Sociologists, IPN reports. .

Choosing from a list, 32% of respondents preferred Igor Dodon. Maia Sandu follows distantly with 17%. Then come Dignity and Truth Party's Andrei Nastase with 12%, Communist leader Vladimir Voronin with 10% and European People's Party's Iurie Leanca with 6%.

Almost 72% are in favor of early legislative elections in 2016, with 20% opposing.

If parliamentary elections were held next Sunday, 60% of respondents would participate with certainty. 18% would vote for the Socialists, 13% the Dignity and Truth Party, 12% Our Party, 7% Action and Solidarity Party, and 6% the Democratic Party. Other parties would not garner enough votes to enter Parliament.

50% of respondents say the Moldova-EU relationship has worsened after the 2014 parliamentary elections. If a referendum was held next Sunday to join either the EU or the Eurasian Union, 36% would choose the former, 39% would prefer the latter, and the remainder gave no answer.

85% think the country goes in the wrong direction. 48% are most concerned about poverty and 40% by corruption. The least concern is the political crisis.

75% say the economic situation is poor or very poor compared to last year.

Asked who is to blame for the poor situation in our country, over 15% said the politicians, 12% said “the criminal group who stole the billion”, 11% accuse the judiciary, 9% accuse the businessman Ilan Sor, and 8% the former central bank chief Dorin Dragutanu. Another 8% blame the Democrat Vlad Plahotniuc, 6% the former PM Vlad Filat, and 1-2% the politicians Mihai Ghimpu and Vladimir Voronin.

The poll was conducted on a sample of 1,189 people in 75 localities during April 1-10.