Civic Platform captures 17% of electorate in first Rzeczpospolita survey

According to a Rzeczpospolita survey, seventeen per cent of the electorate would vote for the Civic Platform (PO) if parliamentary elections were to take place this Sunday. The survey was the first to examine voter preferences after the creation of PO by Andrzej Olechowski, Maciej Plazynski and Donald Tusk. According to the results the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) leads with 46% support, while 14% would vote for Solidarity Election Action (AWS). Such high support for the Platform is possibly the result of its recent convention in Gdansk coupled, with the fact that the formation is a new ‘commodity’ on the political scene. (Rzeczpospolita p 1) A.Z.