The Civic Platform would beat the opposition Law and Justice by 34 per cent in an early election and could form a cabinet single-handedly and even overrule the presidential veto, shows a new poll.

The latest opinion poll conducted by PBS DGA commissioned by Gazeta Wyborcza daily points to a 58 per cent support for the ruling Civic Platform (PO) and only 24 for the opposition Law and Justice (PiS), constituting a massive ten per cent increase in the span of only two weeks.

If the election were held today, the poll results would translate into 306 seats in the Parliament for PO, 125 for PiS and 28 for the Democratic Left Alliance, allowing the winners to form a single-party government and giving them enough power to overrule the President’s veto.

According to Gazeta Wyborcza, PO is capitalising on its recent criticism of the populism demonstrated by Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s party, announcement of compulsory pharmacological castration of paedophiles and withdrawal by the state from financing of the “traitorous anti-Polish” feature film “Westerplatte Mystery”.

PiS, on the other hand, has mainly lost its credibility on trying to discredit the historic importance of the former Solidarity leader and former Polish President Lech Walesa, claims the daily.

The opinion poll was conducted between September 19 and 21 on a group of 1052 individuals. (mj)