An agreement on engaging an arbitration tribunal to solve the Slovenian-Croatian border dispute is to be supported by a majority of Slovenians at a referendum on the matter, according to findings of an opinion polls conducted among 400 respondents by the Ljubljana-based "Delo" daily.
As many as 50 percent of those polled have said that they would support the arbitration deal at the prospective referendum, 30 percent would be against and 20 percent were indecisive respondents.
The opinion poll was conducted by phone last Thursday and Friday just before Slovenian parliamentary parties decided on holding a binding referendum on the matter.
The Slovenian Constitutional Court has recently ruled that the arbitration agreement, concluded by Slovenian and Croatian Prime Ministers Borut Pahor and Jadranka Kosor, is in line with Slovenia's constitution. After the announcement of the court's decision, the Slovenian parliament is expected to ratify the deal. The referendum will be later held, and in the event of the rejection of the deal at the referendum, the agreement would not be enforced.
Croatia's parliament already ratified the document.
Delo conducted another two opinion polls on the border arbitration agreement. In the first one, carried out in November after the two premiers signed it, 49 percent of those polled said they would support it at a referendum, and 37 percent of the respondents were against it.
The next opinion conducted by poll by Delo in January showed the support by 64 percent of respondents with 28 percent of those polled saying they would be against it.
