A parliamentary election poll conducted by TNS OBOP just after the second round of presidential elections puts Civic Platform in government with 52 percent, with rivals Law and Justice sweeping up 31 percent of the vote.

The poll, which was conducted after the second round of the presidential ballot between July 8-12, also gives 11 percent of parliamentary seats to the Democratic Left Alliance, 3 percent less than the 14 percent received by the Leftist leader Grzegorz Napieralski in the first round of the presidential elections in June.

Current coalition partners, the Polish Peasants Party received just 4 percent in the poll, excluding them from gaining any seats in the Sejm lower parliamentary house. Parties need a to gain over the 5 percent threshold to sit in parliament.

Many other parties gained 1 percent in the poll, including rural populist Andrzej Lepper’s Self-Defence, the League of Polish Families which governed in Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s coalition government, as well as the Democratic Party.

12 percent of respondents who declared an interest in voting if parliamentary elections were to go ahead in July, could not declare whom, or for which party they would vote for.

Turnout would amount to 45 percent, almost 10 percent less than actual turnout for the second round of the presidential ballot on July 4.

The poll was conducted between July 8-12 among 971 adult Poles. (jb)

Source: PAP

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