Poll suggests Social Democrats edging ahead of their main rival

An opinion poll conducted by the STEM agency indicates that the opposition Social Democrats are edging ahead of their main rival, the ruling Civic Democratic Party. Its findings suggest that if elections were held today the Social Democrats would come out top of the pile with 33 percent of the vote, followed closely by the Civic Democrats with just 0,8 percent less. The Communists would come third with 15.3 percent of the vote, followed by the Greens and Christian Democrats with 7.1 and 6.8 percent respectively. The Social Democrats lead was reflected in two earlier polls conducted by CVVM and Factum Invenio.