A new poll by GfK Polonia confirms that the gap in support between front runner Bronislaw Komorowski and Jaroslaw Kaczynski continues to close, and the gap between the ruling Civic Platform and opposition Law and Justice is down to just nine percent.

If the June 20 election was held in early May then acting president Komorowski would receive 41 percent of the vote to former prime minister Kaczynski’s 28 percent.

In two weeks, support for Komorowski, the Civic Platform candidate, has declined by six percentage points while support for Law and Justice’s candidate, and twin brother of the late Lech Kaczynski, is up two percent.

In third place, and a long way behind is the Democratic Left Alliance candidate (SLD) Grzegorz Napieralski, who is stuck on four percent support, and deputy prime minister Waldemar Pawlak (PSL) on 3 percent. Independent Andrzej Olechowski is on 2 percent, down one percent from the end of April.

The surge in support for the Law and Justice party continues in the wake of the death of President Kaczynski in the Smolensk disaster continues. The opposition party is now on 36 percent, up four percent from 14 days ago, while the senior coalition partner Civic Platform is still out front on 45 percent, down two percent.

SLD and PSL would be the only two other parties to make it into parliament with eight and five percent respectively.

The GfK Polonia opinion poll was taken for the Rzeczpospolita daily between May 6 - 10 on a random sample of 984. (pg)

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