The attempt by the labour PvdA to frustrate the rise of the socialist SP had an adverse affect in the latest poll by Maurice de Hond, with the SP rising from 34 to 37 seats and the PvdA falling from 17 to 15 seats.

Last week PvdA chairman Hans Spekman told the AD the SP is not the solution to the crisis and called party leader Emile Roemer ‘a great risk’. PvdA MP Mariëtte Hamer said the SP is shifting to her party’s ground.
The latest poll shows that 39% of PvdA voters at the time of the last general election in 2010 are now planning to vote SP. ‘An unprecedented number that I have never seen before,’ said De Hond.
Other parties also continue to lose voters to the SP. Green party GroenLinks has lost 30% of its voters and the anti-immigration PVV 15% to the SP in the latest poll.
The right-wing liberal party VVD, with whom the SP is in a neck-to-neck race, lost one seat, falling from 32 to 31.
The general election is on September 12.