Belgrade: Serb Radical Party (SRS) leads with 33.2 percent support; the coalition of four parties gathered around President Boris Tadic’s Democrats (DS) is in second place with 31.5 percent; and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica’s Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and his coalition partners New Serbia are third with 13.8 percent support – articulated a new Strategic Marketing poll released in Belgrade Monday.

The poll conducted between April 28 and May 1 further articulated that 7.5 percent of those polled said they would vote for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) – the same percentage said their choice will be the Socialist Party of Serbia-PUPS-NS coalitions. The Ethnic minority tickets have 4.5 percent, while the remaining parties do not have ratings that would take them over the five percent threshold necessary in order to win parliament seats.

Strategic Marketing agency said, “It must be noted that there is a number of voters who are still undecided, and that the following days will of course bring some changes, especially since a polarization has appeared around the Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU.”

According to the agency, the margin of error for the survey was +/-3 points. The poll was based on interviews with 546 persons, one day after the signing of the SAA, on April 30.

The agency also revealed that the signing of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) is supported by 53 percent of Serbians, while 37 percent believe that it implies the recognition of Kosovo’s secession. The poll revealed 58 percent of those polled believed that the signing of the SAA did not indirectly imply the recognition of Kosovo’s independence. It found that 58 percent believe that the SAA is important for Serbia’s economy, 54 percent said that it is important for the future of the country, while 51 percent of citizens believe that it is important for their personal lives and the lives of their families.

Strategic Marketing Research Director Svetlana Logar said, “Out of this percentage, 37 percent believe that the signing of the agreement strengthens Serbia’s position in further efforts to preserve her territorial integrity, while 21 percent believe that the signing of the SAA and Serbia’s policy towards Kosovo are two separate things,” Logar said.

Logar said that earlier poll released last week, conducted one day before the signing of the agreement said that 66 percent of Serbians supported the move. She told that the poll conducted on March 22-26 had shown that 51 percent of citizens believed that Serbia’s national security was not threatened and 84 percent of the polled believed that their personal safety was not threatened.