One in four Romanians would want a new party to vote for

Over 25% of Romanians would vote for a new party, but some 38% would probably remain faithful to the current parties, according to a recent INSCOP survey. 24% of respondents haven’t decided on this matter yet. The survey also reveals a slight change in Romanians’ voting options. Over 44% of respondents would vote for the new National Liberal Party PNL, made of PNL and the National Democratic Party PDL, up from 41.7% in December 2014. The PSD-UNPR-PC alliance comes next with 37.4% - down from 38.8% in December, followed by the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania with 5% - similar to December 2014, the Popular Movement Party PMP with 4% - down from 5.6%, the Liberal Reformist Party with 3.3% - similar to December last year, People’s Party Dan Diaconescu with 1.2% - down compared to the 2.3% registered in December, Romania Mare Party with 1.1% - down from 1.2% and PNTCD with 0.9% - up from 0.6%. Almost 70% of Romanians think that parties should get financing from both the state budget and private sources while 12.4% believe they should be funded only with money from the budget. Almost 71% agree with voting by mail for Romanians abroad, but a much lower percentage, namely 16.2%, doesn’t agree with this possibility. The INSCOP survey was conducted between February 5 and February 10, on a sample of over 1,000 people, at the request of Adevarul newspaper. Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com