Poll: only three parties in parliament after election
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
26.06.2015 10:25
A new opinion poll has indicated that only three parties would secure enough votes to take seats in Poland's lower house of parliament if a snap election were to be held.
Poland's lower house of parliament (Sejm). Photo: PAP/Jakub Kamiński
Just four months before the government is compelled to hold a general election, conservative opposition party Law and Justice tops the popularity ranking, with 32.7 percent backing, according to the poll by daily Polska The Times.
Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz's Civic Platform party would garner 25.8 percent support, followed by newcomer the Paweł Kukiz Movement with 19.3 percent.
None of the other parties would manage to cross the 5 percent threshold needed to enter parliament.
Closest to qualifying would be the newly formed ModernPL (NowoczesnaPL).
Meanwhile, the Polish People's Party, currently junior coalition partner in the Civic Platform-led government, would only manage 4 percent. Maverick MEP Janusz Korwin and his KORWiN party would garner 3.8 percent, while the Democratic Left Alliance would take just 3.5 percent. The liberal Your Movement – which managed 10 percent in the 2011 general election - is down to 0.9 percent.
In a separate query as to who respondents felt would make the best prime minister, Law and Justice's Beata Szydło won with 21.1 percent, followed by Paweł Kukiz with 17.5 percent, and Ewa Kopacz with 16.7 percent. (nh)