STEM survey suggests Social Democrats catching up with main rival

An election survey conducted by the STEM agency suggests that the ruling Social Democrats are catching up on their main rival - the opposition Civic Democratic Party, with a mere 1,5 percent difference in their public support rating. The gap was 5,5 percent in April. If elections were held today the centre-right Civic Democrats would get 26,7 percent of the vote, the Social Democrats 25,2 percent. The Communists would come third with 13 percent, followed by the Greens with 7,1 and the Christian Democrats with 5.4 percent. No other party would cross the five percent margin needed to get seats in Parliament.