Poland’s ruling party well ahead: survey
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
31.05.2016 10:06
If parliamentary elections were held in the second half of May, Poland’s ruling conservative Law and Justice party would receive 36 per cent of the vote, 1.5 percentage points less than in the October 2015 election, a poll has found.
Law and Justice leader Jarosław Kaczyński. Photo: Flickr.com/Piotr Drabik
According to a survey by pollster CBOS, the centrist Civic Platform party, the largest opposition grouping with 138 deputies in the 460-seat lower house, can count on 16 percent support.
The Nowoczesna (Modern) party is third with 14 percent. The remaining two parties that would enter parliament are Kukiz ’15 and the Polish People’s Party, with 6 and 5 percent support respectively.
In comparison with a similar survey carried out by the same pollster at the beginning of May, support for Law and Justice has grown by 2 percentage points while that for Civic Platform remains at the same level.
Fifty-eight percent of respondents say they would take part in an election.
The survey was conducted on 18-29 May on a representative group of 932 adults. (mk/pk)