A new poll shows that if elections were held in the upcoming weekend, only three parties would gain seats in the Sejm parliamentary lower house.

According to pollsters SMG/KRC, Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform would receive 39 percent of the ballot, while Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s Law and Justice would gain 27 percent of the vote.

The Democratic Left Alliance, led by Grzegorz Napieralski, would gain 13 percent of the ballot.
Civic Platform’s junior coalition partner, the Polish Peasants’ Party under Waldemar Pawlak, would not get into Parliament with only 4 percent of votes, just 1 percent below the required 5 percent threshold.

Rogue MP and former member of Civic Platform, Janusz Palikot would gain only 1 percent of the ballot, along with rural populist Andrzej Lepper’s Self-Defence. The right-wing League of Polish Families would gain 2 percent if elections were to be held this weekend.

Aggressive language?

Amid inter-party discussions on ‘hate politics’, the poll also asked respondents which party used the most aggressive language in public discourse.

58 percent of respondents stated that Law and Justice used the most aggressive form of language in public debate, with Civic Platform coming second with 26 percent.

Janusz Palikot’s new political formation was blamed by 2 percent of respondents for using aggressive language, with only 1 percent pointing their finger at the Democratic Left Alliance.
25 percent of respondents could not state which party used aggressive language or not.

The SMG/KRC poll was commissioned by TV news station TVN24 and undertaken on the 25/26 October among a representative group of adult Poles. (jb)