Incumbent presidents and mayors will have a distinct advantage in local election on 21 November over rivals, finds a new opinion poll. The poll by Gfk Polonia finds that President of Wroclaw Rafal Dutkiewicz (Civic Platform) has seventy percent support, while his Law and Justice opponent is stuck on eight percent.
In Zabrze, south western Poland, Civic Platform’s Miroslaw Sekula’s attempt to unseat incumbent Malgorzata Manka - Szulik looks an uphill race, despite his high profile appearances on TV as part of the parliamentary commission into a gambling scandal. Sekula trails his rival from Law and Justice by 16 to 53 percent.
Similalrly, independent president of Katowice, capital of Lower Silesia, Piotr Uszok is leading Civic Platform’s candidate Arkadiusz Godlewski by twenty percentage points, finds the poll commissioned by the
Rzeczpospolita daily.
Even Jacek Karnowski, current president of Sopot on the Baltic coast has 43 percent with rival languishing in the single digit ratings, despite the incumbant having a court case ongoing against him following alleged involvement in a property deal scam.
The poll was taken on 18 and 19 September over the telephone from a sample of 500.
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