LJUBLJANA, Jan 23(Hina) - The mood of the Slovene electorate is shifting to the right and to parties showing intolerance, said the head of the Centre for Public Surveys which operates within the Faculty of Political Science in
Ljubljana.
LJUBLJANA, Jan 23(Hina) - The mood of the Slovene electorate is
shifting to the right and to parties showing intolerance, said the
head of the Centre for Public Surveys which operates within the
Faculty of Political Science in Ljubljana. #L#
According to a survey recently conducted by the Centre, the popularity
of the Anton Rop government has fallen from 53 percent to 47 percent,
Nikola Tos said, adding that the popularity of the opposition
Democrats, led by Janez Jansa, was on the rise.
Tos said this was the result of the public perception of the
government's efforts to help build a mosque in the Slovene capital and
grant citizenship to 18,000 non-Slovenes who had been erased from the
official records in the early 1990s after Slovenia became an
independent state and after they failed to apply for Slovene
citizenship.
According to the latest opinion poll, 53 percent of the respondents
were against the construction of the first mosque in Ljubljana as
against 44 percent of those who expressed opposition at the end of
last year.
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