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The secretary general of the Reform Party, senior partner in Estonia's governing coalition, said it is not worthwhile to make far-reaching conclusions from parties' popularity figures.
Estonia's Reform Party not to make far-reaching conclusions from poll results
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"I wouldn't make far-reaching conclusions from those poll results. Time will tell which way public opinion goes," Martin Kukk told BNS in a comment on the findings of a fresh survey.
The prime minister's Reform Party whose popularity has sharply declined since last fall succeeded in reversing the trend in February, a nationwide poll TNS Emor conducted for public broadcaster ERR showed.
If parliamentary elections were held tomorrow, 23 percent of the voters would back the Reform Party. A month ago support for the party stood at 20 percent. Reform's popularity began falling last August, from a high 39 percent, and hit the lowest level in the last five years in January.
At the top of rankings are as before the opposition Center Party and Social Democratic Party (SDE) with 26 percent each. In January Center was backed by 28 percent and SDE, by 27 percent of respondents.
Of the four parties represented in parliament Pro Patria and Res Publica Union (IRL), the junior partner in the governing coalition, was the least popular with 17 percent. In January it was supported by 16 percent of the polled.
TNS Emor conducted face-to-face interviews with 885 voting-age citizens for the survey. The pollster presents the ratings on the basis of respondents who have a party preference, eliminating respondents who do not name any party.