Scandal grounds Reform Party support.
Postimees Digest, Saturday, June 15
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Polling company TNS Emor's recent party popularity survey shows that support for the ruling Reform Party, that had started to climb again, peaked at 24 percent in May/June following the party's latest scandal of in-house vote-rigging. While the party's rating managed to climb to 29 percent in the first stage of the survey in May, it dropped back down to 24 percent in June, following the scandal. The Center Party has now become the most popular political force with 28 percent support in June, followed closely by the Social Democrat Party (26 percent). The Reform Party's minority coalition partner Pro Patria Res Publica Union (IRL) has lost one point to land at 14 percent. The opposition now has 54 percent of the vote against the coalition's 38 percent. People without a clear preference accounted for 44 percent of those questioned in June.