New Poll shows Italy's Democratic Party (PD) losing ground

Italy's Partito Democratico ongoing itnernal crisis is now reflected in opinion polls as well.
La Repubblica, second largest (and left leanting) dailyn newspaper today published and opinion poll that it commissioned from IPR Marketing that show's that PD's has dropped to 28 per cent, far from both the last elections (when the party got 33.2 per cent) and the previous one, when DS and Marghertita, the two parties which converged into PD, obtained 31.1 per cent. According to the survey the first party in Italy is still Popolo della Libertà (PDL), - lead by Prim Minister Silvio Berlusconi - with 39 per cent against the April 13 and 14 elections (37 per cent). Italia dei Valori, the party of former prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro, has risen to 7.8 per cent, an exceptional climb against the April elections when it got 3.4 per cent, while Lega Nord is apparently losing ground, falling from the 7.5 per cent in this poll, down 0.8 per on last Spring's general elections.
The important thing to note, however, is that changes withing the center-right ruling coalition are still well withing the marging of error, but those in the center-left opposition are larger, on the surface showing a drop in consensus for the main party and a rise in Di Pietro's IDV party.
Walter Veltron's PD has shown itself recently to be prone not only to infighting but, much worse, a lack of consesnsus as to what it stands for and where it wants to go, starting from what European Party it's members should caucus with after European elections in the spring (the European Socialist Party of the Liberal Democrats) down to unclear positions on many issues facing the country.
IDV's strongly branded "transparency in government" policies, on the other hand, may be seen as safe shelter to many looking for a party with issues they can stand by.