popular support It stalked all members of the prime minister’s ruling right-wing coalition. Peteri Olupo (NCP) shows the latest poll commissioned by YLE.
Support for the People’s Union rose from 22.6% to 22.9%, for the Finnish People’s Party from 17.0% to 17.6%, for the Christian Democrats from 3.6% to 4.1%, and for the Swedish People’s Party from 3.6% to 3.9%.
“It is becoming increasingly clear that National Union is the most popular political party in Finland.” Tuomo TurjaThe director of research at Taroust Toukims commented to YLE on Thursday.
Support for the Finnish Party appears to have settled at around 17 percent, he added. “This has already been pretty much the same situation for four months in a row.”
As a result, the public’s approval rating for the four ruling parties reached 48.5%.
The Social Democratic Party maintained its position as the number one opposition party and second place overall, although its popularity fell by 1.3 percentage points to 21.0 percent.
Turja pointed out that support for the opposition party has already fallen by more than one point for two consecutive months. He said the party was losing more support than other parties, mainly from the sidelines, and that a “relatively large proportion” of people who voted for it in the last election were now undecided. He added that there is.
Elsewhere, changes are fairly minor. The centrist party’s approval rating decreased by 0.4 points to 10.1%, while the left-wing alliance’s approval rating remained at 8.6%. Like the Social Democratic Party, Turja said the Green League also saw a defection of its supporters, with its approval rating dropping by 0.7 percentage points to 7.7%.
Taloustoukims interviewed 2,581 people for the poll between November 29th and January 2nd. More than two-thirds of those interviewed, or 1,868 people, were able and willing to say which party they would vote for if the current parliamentary elections were held. .
The result has a margin of error of 1.9 points.
The voting period coincided with political debate over the situation on the eastern border and Congress’ approval of widespread cuts to Social Security benefits.
“The government’s message was that Finland’s public economy was weak and something had to be done. Perhaps the government’s message resonated with voters,” Turja said. .
Meanwhile, the opposition was unable to challenge the government, at least not in a way that would increase its popularity.
Aleksi Teivainen – HT