A recent poll shows that the people do not know who to vote for in the local elections and such a state of affairs is worrisome, said the Association of Sociologists and Demographers of Moldova. If local elections to choose local councilors were held next Sunday, each fourth respondent would not know who to vote for, IPN reports.
Some 8% of those questioned said they would not take part in the elections. 16.3% would vote for the Liberal Democratic Party, 15.1% for the Party of Socialists, 10.8% for the Democratic Party, 9.5% for the Party of Communists, while 7.3% for the Liberal Party.
The Association’s deputy head Andrei Dumbraveanu told a news conference that the respondents were asked to assess the year 2014, compared with 2013. Four of ten respondents said that 2014 was harder, 37% said they saw no difference, while 21% stated it was easier than the previous one. The positive assessment index is higher among the urban population and the young people.
Some 54% of the respondents consider that things inside the country go right, 29% think they go wrong, while 17% don’t know. 1/3 of those polled believe that the November 30, 2014 parliamentary elections were free and fair, 41% do not agree with this, while 23% could not state an opinion.
Also, 37.1% of those surveyed are for integration into the European Union, while 36.8% for entry into the Eurasian Union. Each fourth respondent could not say clearly how they would vote in a referendum on the issue.
Each respondent was asked to name three political events that they consider the most important events of 2014. The legislative elections are considered the top political event of last year. It is followed by the signing of the Association Agreement with the European Union and the liberalization of the visa regime with the EU.
The sociological poll “Year 2014 in the opinion of Moldova’s population” was conducted by the Association of Sociologists and Demographers and the Institute of Legal and Political Research of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. It was carried out between January 8 and 20, 2015 and covered a sample of 1,171 respondents older than 18 from 79 settlements of Moldova, except for the Transnistrian region. The margin of sampling error is 3.0%.
