A new survey conducted by the Pollster Research Institute for the “Super Express” newspaper puts Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition (KO) at 32.24 percent and the United Right, to which PiS belongs, at 31.64 percent, reports wpolityce.pl.
The right-wing Confederation polled 12.61 percent, while the Left got 10.21 percent and Third Way 8.82 percent.
The survey was conducted on Sept. 7-8 using the CAWI method on a sample of 1,061 adult Poles.
Previous polling from IBRiS for daily Rzeczpospolita, conducted Aug. 30-31 on 1,067 respondents showed KO ahead at 36.3 percent versus the United Right at 34.6 percent. In that survey, Confederation stood at 8.8 percent.
Professor Olgierd Annusewicz, from the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Warsaw, says: “PiS is not doing anything to overtake Platform, nor is PO (trying) to overtake PiS. These parties feed on the eternal conflict and play on polarization. This situation may change only in late autumn of this year.”
The two parties have, nevertheless, been locked in court battles and political intrigues ever since Tusk came to power late last year, with questions surrounding his party’s taking over media and going after former PiS ministers in what many say have been unconstitutional actions.
Meanwhile, in another survey conducted by Social Changes for wPolsce24 television, 52 percent of respondents believe that Donald Tusk’s government does not care about the needs of ordinary Poles. Another 35 percent responded that he did care about ordinary Poles, while 13 percent had no opinion on the matter.
