If snap parliamentary elections were held in in Moldova next Sunday, three parties would enter the legislative body: the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), the Party of Socialists and the Shor Party. According to the Public Opinion Barometer (POB) presented by the Institute for Public Policy, the Party of Action and Solidary (PAS) would gain 29.6% of the vote, the Party of Socialists (PSRM) – 16.2%, while the Shor Party – 5.3%. The other parties would not pass the election threshold of 5%. Also, each tenth citizen would not go to vote, each fourth citizen didn’t know what to answer, while 5.6% didn’t give a response.
In a news conference at IPN, Institute for Public Policy director Arcadie Barbăroșie said the percentage of citizens who answered “No party/I would not go to the polls”, “I don’t know” or didn’t answer is rather high, of about 30%. Based on the option of the decided respondents, four parties would enter Parliament: the PAS, PSRM, the Shor Party and Our Party. Of the decided respondents, 48.6% would vote for the PAS, 26.6% for the PSRM, 8.7% for the Shor Party, while 6.2% for Our Party.
Asked what political personality they trust the most, 46% of the respondent said they do not trust anyone. 22.5% of those polled mentioned incumbent President Maia Sandu, 11% – former President Igor Dodon, current leader of the Party of Socialists, 2.4% - the leader of the Shor Party Ilan Shor, 1.7% - the president of the Party of Communists Vladimir Voronin, 1.6% - “someone else”, while 1.1% - the leader of Our Party Renato Usatyi.
The respondents were asked what they believe when they think about Moldovan politicians. 56.1% of them said these are mostly corrupt, 20.3% said all of them are corrupt, while 16.2% said some of the politicians are corrupt. The rest said only several are corrupt or none of them is corrupt or didn’t answer.
Sociologist Vasile Cantarji, of CBS Research, said the survey covered a national sample of 1,108 persons aged 18 and over. The data were collected during January 28 and February 14 through face-to-face interviews. The margin of sampling error is +/-3%.
