Poland: Civic Platform Party Loses Popularity

What party would you support in the next election?

	May 2008	Mar. 2008	Nov. 2007
Civic Platform (PO)	41%	60%	50%
Law and Justice Party (PiS)	20%	19%	20%
Left and Democracy (LiD)	5%	5%	6%
Peasant’s Party (PSL)	3%	4%	5%

Source: GfK Polonia / Rzeczpospolita
Methodology: Interviews to 1,039 Polish adults, conducted on May 23 to May 25, 2008. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

Poland: 2 Conservative Parties Combine for 83% of Vote

What party would you support in the next election?

Civic Platform (PO)	60%
Law and Justice Party (PiS)	23%
Left and Democracy (LiD)	8%
Peasant’s Party (PSL)	3%

Source: PBS DGA / Gazeta Wyborcza
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,128 Polish adults, conducted from Mar. 7 to Mar. 9, 2008. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

Poland: Governing Party Takes the Lead

What party would you support in the next election?

	Oct. 4	Sept. 16	Sept. 9
Law and Justice Party (PiS)	36%	29%	28%
Civic Platform (PO)	31%	30%	28%
Left and Democracy (LiD) Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) Social Democracy of Poland (SDP) Democratic Party of Poland (PD) Labour Union (UP)	16%	12%	11%
Self-Defence of the Polish Republic (SRP)	6%	2%	5%
Peasant’s Party (PSL)	5%	2%	2%
League of Polish Families (LPR)	3%	2%	3%

Source: PBS DGA / Gazeta Wyborcza
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,023 Polish adults, conducted from Sept. 30 to Oct. 4, 2007. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

Poland: 2 Conservative Parties Ahead in Poland

What party would you support in the next election?

	Aug. 26	Jul. 22
Civic Platform (PO)	31%	34%
Law and Justice Party (PiS)	28%	22%
Left and Democracy (LiD) Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) Social Democracy of Poland (SDP) Democratic Party of Poland (PD) Labour Union (UP)	9%	10%
League for Self-Defence (LiS) Self-Defence of the Polish Republic (SRP) League of Polish Families (LPR)	6%	10%
National Pensioners’ Party (KPEiR)	3%	n.a.
Peasant’s Party (PSL)	2%	2%
Women’s Party (PK)	1%	n.a.

Source: GfK Polonia / Rzeczpospolita
Methodology: Interviews to 1,000 Polish adults, conducted on Aug. 26, 2007. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

Poland: 2 Conservative Parties Fight for First

What party would you support in the next election?

	Jul. 2007	Feb. 2007
Civic Platform (PO)	31%	30%
Law and Justice Party (PiS)	24%	28%
Left and Democracy (LiD) Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) Social Democracy of Poland (SDP) Democratic Party of Poland (PD) Labour Union (UP)	13%	11%
Self-Defence of the Polish Republic (SRP)	5%	5%
League of Polish Families (LPR)	3%	2%
Peasant’s Party (PSL)	3%	2%

Which coalition government would you prefer?

Civic Platform (PO) and Law and Justice Party (PiS)	35%
Civic Platform (PO) and Left and Democracy (LiD)	28%
The current coalition: Law and Justice Party (PiS), Self-Defence of the Polish Republic (SRP) and League of Polish Families (LPR)	18%
Other / Not sure	19%

Source: PBS DGA / Gazeta Wyborcza
Methodology: Interviews to 1,020 Polish adults, conducted on Jul. 7 and Jul. 8, 2007. Margin of error is 3.2 per cent.