The telephone poll Promocija Plus agency conducts at the start of every month covered 1,300 persons. The latest poll shows that support to Prime Minister Ivo Sanader as the most positive politician in the country has dropped 1.7 percent to 23.9 percent.
Ivica Racan, the leader of the strongest opposition party, the Social Democrats (SDP), remains at number three, but his popularity is also on the slide, from 10.5 percent in July to 8.8 percent.
Deputy PM Jadranka Kosor is also losing in public support, which fell from 6.9 to 5.9 percent.
On the other hand, the popularity of presidential candidate Slaven Letica has risen to 3.8 percent.
Other politicians cited as the most positive include Vesna Pusic and Radimir Cacic, both from the Croatian People's Party (HNS), Tonci Tadic and Anto Djapic from the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP), Croatian Peasant Party leader Zlatko Tomcic, and Damir Kajin from the Istrian Democratic Assembly.
Deputy PM Andrija Hebrang is once again the most unpopular politician in the country, cited as such by 20.6 percent of those asked. He is followed by Sanader (14 percent), Racan (13.2 percent), and Parliament President President Vladimir Seks (nine percent).
The latest poll shows support to the government's work has fallen from 14.7 percent in July to 13.8 percent. Eighteen percent of those asked have said they mostly do not support the government's work, up from last month's 16.3 percent, 17.8 percent mostly do support it, 17.8 percent are undecided, while 16.4 percent do not support the government's work at all, up from 12.2 percent in July.
The Croatian Democratic Union remains the most popular party (33.2 percent), followed by the SDP (23.4 percent), the HNS (9.6 percent) and the HSP (6.9 percent).
Thirty-eight percent of those asked have said the biggest event of the previous month was the reduction of the Hague war crimes tribunal's sentence to Bosnian Croat General Tihomir Blaskic and his release.