November the 9th, 2026 – Research has discovered that Aleksandar Vučić falling in Serbia is more important than the price increases and protests within Croatia.
The defeat of Aleksandar Vučić in the elections over in Serbia was the most important topic for Croatians in the past month, ahead of inflation and price increases, shows the new CRO Demoskop. Index reports that the defeat of Aleksandar Vučić in the parliamentary elections in Serbia was declared the most important topic of the past month by 21.9 percent of respondents. Inflation and price increases took second place with 14.3 percent, while street protests in several European cities were singled out by 12.4 percent of citizens.
The death of Goran Bare and Mišo Kovač was an important topic for 11.9 percent of respondents. The Nazi rampage by part of Torcida fans, arrests and threats to journalists was singled out by 9.9 percent. Problems with the remediation of illegal waste in Gospić and protests against the incineration of waste in Koromačno received 4.7 and 4.4 percent respectively.
If elections had been held at the beginning of November, HDZ would have won 24.9 percent of the votes, and SDP 17.5 percent. HDZ fell by 0.1 percentage points compared to October, while SDP lost two points and recorded the lowest support in the current term. In the last year support for HDZ has fallen by five, and for SDP by six percentage points.
This is at the same time HDZ’s weakest result since Andrej Plenković began his third premiership in April 2024. Among the four leading parties support in one month fell by a total of 2.7 percentage points, and around three quarters of that drop falls on SDP. Možemo is in third place with 13.6 percent, and Most in fourth with 9.4 percent. Those parties also recorded a slight drop, by 0.2 and 0.4 percentage points respectively. Undecided voters stand at 18.8 percent, compared to 15.6 percent in October. The research was conducted by the agency Promocija plus on a sample of 1,000 respondents. The sampling error for party ratings is ±3.53 percentage points, with a confidence level of 95 percent. The data source is CRO Demoskop for RTL.
