Nowoczesna party gaining substantial voter support
PR dla Zagranicy
Alicja Baczyńska
12.12.2015 10:22
The neoliberal Nowoczesna (Modern) party is now the second strongest player on the political arena, the latest survey by pollster CBOS shows.
Photo: Radek Pietruszka/PAP
Nowoczesna, led by economist Ryszard Petru, is supported by 21 percent of the respondents, up by 14 percentage points since the general ballot on 25 October.
Conservative Law and Justice (PiS), which took over power after the parliamentary elections, is meanwhile, still in the lead, with 35 percent. Its backing marks a three percentage-point drop compared to the party's election results.
PiS and Nowoczesna are followed by the recently defeated center-right Civic Platform (PO), with 15 percent - down by nine percentage points since the parliamentary vote.
The populist Kukiz'15 movement, headed by rock singer Paweł Kukiz, garnered eight percent support.
Parties whose support is below the five-percent threshold needed to enter Parliament are far-right KORWiN, the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD, currently part of the United Left coalition), the leftist Together Party and the junior coalition member in the previous Civic Platform-led government, the agrarian Polish People's Party (PSL) - with all groupings receiving three percent.
The survey was carried out on a sample of 989 adults, between 3 and 10 December. (aba/rk)
Source: IAR