The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) continues to top the country’s political party rankings, with support for the opposition party growing, according to the latest Spinter Tyrimai opinion poll published by Delfi news website on Monday.
The LSDP saw support grow from 12.9 percent in March to 17 percent in April, its best result in the current parliamentary term.
The ruling conservative Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) stayed in second place with 12 percent, almost unchanged from 11.8 percent a month ago.
It was followed by two opposition parties: the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union with 9.9 percent, up from 8.6 percent, and the Democratic Union “For Lithuania” with 7.3 percent, down from 8.2 percent.
Some 7.3 percent of those polled in April said they would vote for the Liberal Movement, a member of the ruling coalition, slightly up from 6.8 percent in March.
Some 20.3 percent of respondents said they would not go to the polls, up from 13.1 percent a month ago, and 7.6 percent were undecided or did not answer the question.
When asked who they saw as best suited to be prime minister, 11.9 percent of respondents chose Ingrida Šimonytė, the incumbent head of government, compared to 12.2 percent in the previous poll.
MEP Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, the LSDP leader, came in second with 9.8 percent, up from 7.4 percent.
Further down the list was Saulius Skvernelis, the Democratic Union’s leader and a former prime minister, with 7.5 percent, followed by Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, the speaker of the parliament and leader of the Liberal Movement, with 5.5 percent.
When asked about the current government's performance, 62.5 percent of those polled in April gave a negative or a rather negative opinion (65.9 percent a month ago) and 32.3 percent said their opinion was positive or rather positive (29.1 percent).
In the representative survey commissioned by Delfi, Spinter Tyrimai polled 1,014 people aged 18 to 75 years between April 18 and 27. The results of the poll have an error margin of 3.1 percent.
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