As many as three in every four Poles prefer just one day parliamentary election, even though recently adopted legislation allows President Komorowski to opt for either one-day or two-day system of voting.

The poll comes as the head of state is in consultations on when to holds the elections with 23 October thought to be the most probable.

According to a poll by Millward Brown SMG/KRC for the private TVN television station, 22 percent of the respondents favour the Saturday-Sunday voting.

The State Electoral Commission estimates that the costs of the two-day system would be about 50 percent higher than the current one.

A new Parliament has to be elected in the autumn, before the end of the first week of November. The new electoral law comes into force on 1 August, and so if the President supports the two-day system he will not be able to announce the date of the ballot before that date.

Civic Platform with six percent lead

f the parliamentary elections were held this weekend, the Prime Minister’s Civic Platform (PO) would gain 36 per cent of the vote, six percentage points more than the main opposition party, the conservative Law and Justice (PiS).

According to Millward Brown SMG/KRC, the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) would win 16 per cent of the vote and the Polish Peasant Party (PSL), the junior partner in the current government coalition, would be the smaller grouping in a new parliament – with a support of five per cent.

This is yet another survey in recent weeks which shows a narrowing gap between the two biggest political forces in Poland.

Turnout would be 61 per cent. (mk/pg)