Ipsos: SNS would win over 50 percent of votes

BELGRADE - The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) would win slightly over 50 percent of votes of the citizens who would go to polls (around 66 percent of the population) if the elections were to be held now, the November survey conducted by Ipsos agency show, as quoted by the Belgrade-based daily Blic.

Around 10 percent of people would vote for the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), 6 percent of votes would go to the Democratic Party (DS) and 5 percent of the voters would back the Dveri Movement, while around 3 percent of votes would go to the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the movement headed by Sasa Radulovic each, and these parties would not cross the census.

According to the survey, the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) had around 3 percent of support before the return of the party leader Vojislav Seselj from the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, but the number of the party's supporters increased to 8 percent in the few days prior to his arrival and in the period since his return to Serbia.

Nevertheless, SRS popularity dropped to 3 percent after the first statements made by Seselj in Serbia in late November.

Citizens showed greatest degree of trust in Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic whose score of positive and negative points totals plus 45, leaving far behind the scores achieved by President Tomislav Nikolic, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic. The most popular minister is Zorana Mihajlovic, the survey shows.

The list of least popular politicians includes leader of the New Party (NS) Zoran Zivkovic who scored minus 79...