Okamura, Babiš and Sobotka are most popular party leaders

Tomio Okamura of the Dawn of Direct Democracy, Andrej Babiš of ANO 2011 and Bohuslav Sobotka of the Social Democrats are the three most popular party leaders, according to a new poll released by the STEM agency on Monday. Almost half of the respondents had a positive opinion of Senator Okamura, while 48 percent had a negative one. Chairmen of the ANO and Social Democratic parties both had a 47 percent approval rating. The leaders of the Green Party, TOP 09, Civic Democratic, Communist and Christian Democratic parties all were positively assessed by around 30 percent of the respondents. Leaders of the rest of the parties running in this weekend’s elections received approximately 20-percent approval or less.