The Social Democratic Party (SDE) enjoyed the highest support among Estonian voters also in April with 27 percent, news of public broadcaster ERR reported.
SDE remains most popular party in Estonia
20th April 2013, 13:40
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If parliamentary elections were held now 27 percent of respondents would vote for Social Democrats, 25 percent for the Reform Party, 24 percent for the Center Party and 13 percent for Pro Patria and Res Publica Union (IRL), according to a poll TNS Emor conducted for ERR.
Compared to the previous month, SDE and the Reform Party maintained their voters' support while both Center and IRL saw their backing weaken by two percentage points.
Overall support for the two opposition parties, SDE and Center, was 51 percent against the Reform-IRL coalition's 38 percent. The gap has not narrowed since last month.
Of non-parliamentary parties both the Greens and the Conservative People's Party (EKRE) mustered 3 percent. The change in the popularity of EKRE that recently elected Estonia's former ambassador to Russia Mart Helme chairman is remarkable in that its support has measured between zero and 2 percent over the past year.
The Independence Party and Christian Democrats were backed by 1 percent of the polled.
TNS Emor conducted face-to-face interviews with 880 voting-age citizens from March 27 to April 17. The pollster presents the ratings on the basis of respondents who have a party preference, eliminating respondents who do not name any party. In April such respondents made up 40 percent of all the interviewees.