If elections were to take place this weekend, the ruling Civic Platform could count on 36.7 percent of the ballot, a new survey from Homo Homini pollsters for Polish Radio reveals.

Civic Platform’s result reflects a gain of 3.6 percentage points. Meanwhile, the major opposition Law and Justice party would gain 24.9 percent of the vote, a drop of 1.1 percentage points.

Support for the Democratic Left Alliance stands at 17 percent, while junior coalition partners the Polish Peasants’ Party could count on 8.3 percent of the ballot.

The newly formed Poland Comes First party, which is formed of MPs formerly of Law and Justice, would fail to pass the 5 percent threshold to gain seats in the Sejm parliamentary lower house, gaining only 2.8 percent of the vote.

Former Civic Platform maverick, Janusz Palikot could count on 2.5 percent of the vote.

Frequency would amount to 52.3 percent, reveals the poll, which was undertaken among a representative group of 1,083 Poles on 18 March.

Rise of the Left?

According to Marcin Duma, the head of the Homo Homini Institute which undertook the poll, the rise in popularity for the ruling party is due to the “reactivation of Donald Tusk” in the public sphere lately.

However, commenting on the continued high results of the Democratic Left Alliance, Duma said that if the party were indeed to receive 17 percent of the votes in an election, it would be the highest result since elections in 2001, when the party secured 41 percent of the ballot.

Marcin Duma also stated that Poland Comes First has come to a deciding moment, saying that the party “has problems because it is no longer a new group and as such must find a way and a concept for its existence.”

“Otherwise, the party will disappear from the Polish political scene.” (jb)