On Sunday it would have started - the Almedals week, but in the traces of the corona pandemic, it is set like many other things. However, it is not only the way the corona crisis makes an impression on political life, it has also been clearly marked in opinion and trust surveys, but also in the latest Novus survey of the confidence of the party leaders and the government.
Having increased greatly in confidence at the beginning of the crisis, the trend now seems to be breaking for both Stefan Löfven (-4) and his government (-8), although he remains the party leader with the highest confidence and remains at clearly higher levels levels than before the corona pandemic. The confidence gap for Löfven is just within the margin of error, but at the same time in line with the party sympathy survey presented this week.
- His numbers are still stable and at very high levels, but we see a decline as coronapanedmin changes a little in the public space. There is no race as such but the upward trend is broken, says Torbjörn Sjöström, CEO of Novus.
Up for Kristersson
The one who increases most in the survey is Ulf Kristersson (+4) who goes past KD leader Ebba Busch and ends up in a shared second place in the confidence league.
- It was quite expected that he would increase and this confirms the rise of the voter barometer over the past three months, says Torbjörn Sjöström.
Second place is shared with the Left Party's Jonas Sjöstedt, who continues to decline from unusually high confidence figures before the pandemic.
Tough for Sabuni on the one-year anniversary
At the bottom are the leaders of the two parties who also have the toughest opinion. The two party spokesmen Isabella Lövin and Per Bolund and the Liberal Party leader Nyamko Sabuni. For Nyamko Sabuni, who took over the party leader's post on June 28 last year, the seven percent in the survey is a real loss compared to the just over twenty that she had when she took office.
- Above all, the proportion of people with low confidence has increased significantly compared to the previous survey. Now far more people have negative confidence than they have positive confidence and the proportion who have positive confidence was very few even before so it can not decrease very much, says Torbjörn Sjöström.