Support for Nice treaty falls by 7%, days before referendum

Public support for the Nice treaty has fallen by 7 per cent less than a week before the referendum on June 7th, according to the latest Irish Times/MRBI opinion poll.

According to the poll - to be published in tomorrow’s

Irish Times

- support for the Yes vote dropped seven points to 45 per cent, while the No vote was up seven points at 28 per cent. The figures were compared with another

Irish Times

/MRBI poll carried out two weeks ago.

Those who are undecided or had no opinion remained unchanged at 27 per cent.

There was a drop of four per cent of those in favour of removing references to the death penalty from the Constitution, with 51 per cent saying they would vote Yes. Those against its removal from the Constitution increased by three points to 31 per cent while 18 per cent of people are undecided, up one point.

When asked about voting intentions on whether to allow Ireland participate in an International Criminal Court to be established under the auspices of the UN, 64 per cent were in favour, down one point, 13 per cent were against, up two points while those of no opinion dropped by one point to 23 per cent.

The poll was conducted among a national quota sample of 1,000 electors at 100 sampling points throughout all constituencies last Tuesday and Wednesday.