Civic Platform Clearly Favoured in Poland

(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - The governing party of Poland continues to enjoy a high level of support, according to a poll by PBS DGA published in Gazeta Wyborcza. 46 per cent of respondents would vote for the Civic Platform (PO) in the next legislative election, up one point since early November.

The opposition Law and Justice Party (PiS) is a distant second with 26 per cent, followed by the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) with nine per cent, and the Peasant’s Party (PSL) with seven per cent.

In October 2007, Polish voters renewed the Diet, or lower house of Parliament. Final results gave the PO 41.51 per cent of the vote and 209 seats, followed by the PiS with 32.11 per cent and 166 seats. In November, the PO and the PSL—who together hold 240 seats in the 460-member Diet—agreed to form a coalition government. PO leader Donald Tusk was sworn in as prime minister.

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