A recent survey commissioned by the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) and conducted by the Finnish market research company Taloustutkimus indicates that the opposition parties gained a slight increase in support in March.
The YLE poll shows that the National Coalition Party continues to be the most popular party in the country, with 23.3 per cent support.
The opposition Social Democratic Party got 21.4 per cent support, while the Centre Party got 19%.
However, all three percentages fall within the margin of error of 1.5 percentage points either way.
The Green League scored 10.9 per cent, while the True Finns’ backing was 9.2 per cent, and that of the Left Alliance 7.4 per cent of the respondents.
The support of the Christian Democrats was 3.9 per cent and that of the Swedish People’s Party 3.5 per cent.
Taloustutkimus interviewed a total of 2,889 people between March 9th and April 2nd.
Compared with the previous poll taken by Taloustutkimus between February 17th and March 12th, the Social Democrats gained an increase of 0.5 percentage points, while the Green League rose 0.8 points.
Discussion over planned reform of the pension age - eventually shelved by the government - is believed to have been partly responsible for the boost given to the opposition SDP's ratings.
