According to the latest Opinia24 poll, Civic Coalition (KO) would receive 32.9 percent of votes in an election, 1.2 percentage points more than in the previous poll earlier in December, writes Do Reczy.
Law & Justice (PiS) would see 24.6 percent support, a drop of 0.5 percentage points, while Confederation came in at 13.2 percent, a drop of 1.4 percentage points.
A big surprise was the result for the Confederation of the Polish Crown, which got 9.6 percent of voter support, an increase of 3.4 percentage points.
Below the electoral threshold were: The Left (4.7 percent), Together (2.5 percent), PSL (2.4 percent), and Polska 2050 (1.8 percent). While 3 percent of respondents declared they would vote for another party, 5.5% of respondents did not know who they would vote for.
In a recent United Surveys by IBRiS poll for Wirtualna Polska, cited by Wiadomosci, KO received 32.8 percent of voter support, Law and Justice is in second place with 26.7 percent, and Confederation of the Polish Crown got 8.4 percent.
PiS MEP Adam Bielan stated that poor polls should motivate the party, but he doesn’t want to rely too heavily on them. He added that Grzegorz Braun’s far-right, nationalist party may not necessarily maintain its position and co-govern Poland in the future.
“I think that MP Grzegorz Braun’s group is a typical protest party, and I think that many voters who dislike this internal dispute or internal debate within Law and Justice may at some point say, ‘Okay, have your fun, I’ll vote for someone who will clean up the mess here,’ and here comes to mind the man known for running around with a fire extinguisher,” he said, adding that he hopes voters will make the right choice at the ballot box.
He also quashed the idea of Braun’s party being in a coalition. “Grzegorz Braun has little chance of co-governing the country today, of forming any kind of sensible coalition. Law and Justice has the best chance of forming a coalition that will remove the current government, which, in my opinion, is very bad,” he stated.
Dr. Anna Materska-Sosnowska, a political scientist from the University of Warsaw, comments on the poll results for the Polish Army. “The polls only show us a certain mood. They show the emotions that are present in society, and that they are shifting to the right,” she emphasizes.
According to the expert, the growing support for the Confederation of the Polish Crown is “built on the lowest levels of resentment, built on emotions, and this demonstrates deep social frustration. And this is, I would say, dangerous for us as a society.”
Meanwhile, the latest UCE Research poll commissioned by Onet showed that only 11.26 percent of Poles rated Donald Tusk’s performance as “very good,” while 21.84 percent selected the “rather good” option.
On the flip side, 17.53 percent said Tusk is doing his job “rather poorly,” and 25.07 percent rated his performance as “very poorly.”
Another 24.29 percent of respondents had no opinion on the matter.
