STEM polls shows weak voter relationship with Public Affairs, TOP 09

Around two-fifths of the people who voted for the Public Affairs party in May’s lower house elections did so not out of any great conviction but only because they saw the party as the lesser evil. That is one of the findings of a poll carried out by the STEM agency whose results were released on Monday. The results were not much better for the other newcomer party, TOP 09, with around half of those polled saying they had a weak or very weak relationship with the party. Most of the longer established parties fared better with over two-thirds saying they had a strong or very strong identification with them. Elections at the end of May were narrowly won by the Social Democrats but the second placed Civic Democrats formed a coalition with TOP 09 and Public Affairs.