Anti-Pole website boosts PVV fortunes, Labour slide continues

A website set up by the anti-immigration PVV where people can list problems they’ve experienced with central and eastern European nationals, appears to have boosted the party’s popularity, according to the latest Maurice de Hond opinion poll.


The poll, published every Sunday, says the PVV would win 24 seats if there was a general election tomorrow, up four on a week ago.
An earlier poll by De Hond showed while 55% of the population at large do not approve of the website, just 5% of PVV voters think it is a bad idea.
Labour
Labour, by contrast, is down three seats at 14 following a flurry of reports about divisions within the party about its direction.
In an interview by party leader Job Cohen and party chairman Hans Spekman to newspaper Trouw last week, the two highlighted the number of similarities between the PvdA and the Socialist Party. This led some commentators to conclude the party planned a shift to the left.
Cohen’s popularity is also in decline, the De Hond poll shows. Some 63% of Labour voters do not think he will lead the party much longer and 45% want a new leader now.
The SP continues to lead the De Hond poll, adding one seat to 33.

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