According to a new IBRiS poll, 55 percent of Polish respondents want Rafał Trzaskowski to be the CIvic Platform (KO) presidential candidate, reports Do Rzezcy.
The survey asked, “If the current ruling coalition (KO, Third Way and The Left) decided to put forward one candidate in the presidential election, who would be the best candidate?”
Warsaw Mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski came out on top with 55 percent; the chairman of the Polish People’s Party, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, received 12.9 percent; and third place went to Prime Minister Donald Tusk with 8.3 percent.
Meanwhile, Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski received support from 5.9 percent of respondents, Speaker of the Sejm Szymon Hołownia (leader of Poland 2050 and a member of the Third Way alliance) got 5.3 percent, Deputy Speaker of the Senate Magdalena Biejat 3 percent and Minister of Family Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk 2.6 percent.
“Their (KO’s) electorate does not want quarrels and rivalry, but only for the coalition in the presidential election to appear as a unified group that puts forward one candidate for president,” said Dr. Bartłomiej Machnik from Warsaw’s Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in an interview with the Rzeczpospolita news portal.
The survey was conducted on Sept. 13-14 by telephone on a sample of 1,068 respondents.
The presidential election will be held in Poland in the spring of 2025, with President Andrzej Duda no longer eligible for re-election.
So far, the only politician who has officially announced his candidacy for president and even started campaigning is Sławomir Mentzen, chairman of the New Hope party and one of the leaders of the right-wing Confederation alliance.
