WUI (Writing under the influence)

Leftist coalition cementing its position as a major party in Poland

According to the latest opinion poll from PBS DGA commissioned by Gazeta Wyborcza, the opposition party Civic Platform (PO) has 31% support while the ruling Law & Justice (PiS) follows with 27%.

Since the last poll in May, PiS lost a percentage point and PO gained 3 pps.

The third most popular party is the coalition of leftist parties, Lewica i Democraci (LiD) with 12% support levels. Following the numerous scandal's of the last leftist Government, led by Leszek Miller, many analysts predicted the demise of the former communists, the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD). The party managed to reinvent itself to a degree and joined the LiD coalition with a number of smaller parties. Its support has been growing fairly steadily for the past few months as support levels for the two main parties have remained surprisingly steady, with neither PO nor PiS able to make much headway.

One party that has lost support in the past six months or so is junior coalition partner Samoobrona. Early in its tenure as a member of the Government, it had support of about 10% of the populace. Now the party regularly polls in the neighborhood of 6%.

This month's PBS DGA poll was conducted on June 10-11 on a representative sample of 1022 persons.

posted by Polish Immigrant  # 5:13 PM