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Poll shows support still strong for Polish ruling party

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Grzegorz Siwicki 22.05.2018 08:30
Poland’s ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party is backed by 36 percent of voters, while opposition groupings lag a long way behind with no signs of closing the gap, according to a new poll.
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The survey by pollster Kantar Public found that the opposition Civic Platform (PO) party, which led the previous government, was backed by 22 percent of people who said they would vote if parliamentary elections took place in May.

Compared with a similar survey in April, support for PiS remained unchanged, while support for the Civic Platform slipped by 1 percentage point.

The left-wing Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) was in third place on 6 percent in the new survey. This last party is now outside parliament.

The Kukiz'15 grouping was fourth on 5 percent, according to the survey.

Other parties would not exceed the 5 percent threshold needed to make it into the Polish parliament, according to the poll.

Nineteen percent of respondents who said they would vote could not say for whom they would cast their ballot.

The Kantar Public survey was conducted from May 11 to 16 on a nationwide representative sample of 1,032 adult respondents.

The conservative Law and Justice party swept to power in a landslide election win in late 2015.

(gs/pk)

Source: PAP

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