The ruling Civic Platform party has lost seven percent of its support in the last two weeks, according to a survey by Gfk Polonia pollsters.

Forty eight percent of respondents declared their support of Civic Platform, down from 55 percent two weeks ago.

Most of the lost support appears to have gone to the main opposition party in Poland, Law and Justice, which moved from 21 percent 14 days ago to 29 percent support.

Sociologist Jacek Kucharczyk thinks that recent events, such as the failure to sell the Gdynia shipyard and the death of a Polish soldier in Afghanistan - which sparked serious charges of incompetence leveled at the Defence Ministry by the now resigned head of the Land Forces in Poland - has eaten into support for Prime MIniser Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform.

Political analyst Wojciech Jabłoński thinks, however, that Civic Platform have simply neglected their PR campaign over the summer holidays.

The Democratic Left Alliance remains on 10 percent and Polish Peasants Party on seven percent, according to the survey published in Rzeczpospolita. (pg/jn)