A political party that could come out of the Zares (For Real), a recently established society of six former deputies of the opposition Liberal Democrats (LDS), could take 16.9% of the vote at the 2008 general elections, show the results of a survey published in Saturday's edition of weekly Mladina.
The level of support surprised Mladina, as the poll was carried out only a few days after the deputies announced that they formed the society on 9 March. The independents then said they hoped the society would eventually grow into a party.
If established, the party would get the majority of its support from those who prefer the LDS, the ruling coalition Pensioners' Party (DeSUS), the opposition Social Democrats (SD) and the undecided.
On the other hand, 44.9% of the 700 respondents polled on 13 and 14 March would not vote for Zares, while 38.4% were undecided on the issue.
If Zares did not become a party and if general elections were held on Sunday, the largest number of the respondents (15.5%) would opt for the SD.
Coming second is the ruling coalition's Slovenian Democrats (SDS) with a 14.4% support and the LDS is third with 8% of the vote.
Fourth spot is shared by the opposition National Party (SNS) and coalition New Slovenia (NSi) with 3.2% each, coalition People's Party (SLS) is sixth with 2.8% and DeSUS comes seventh with 2.4%.
Parliamentary threshold in Slovenia stands at 4%.
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