Last minute poll on eve of EU election

On Sunday, the public will go to the ballot box and choose their representatives to the European Parliament. According to a Rzeczpospolita poll, the Civic Platform will the most seats with 30% support. At the same time Self-Defense will most likely achieve the second best score with 18% of the vote. However, public opinion research institutes expect a very poor turnout - in fact it might be the lowest in the history of contemporary Poland and below 30%. That having been said, in the EU, on average about 35% of the public vote in an EU election. Despite the drastic drop in support for the ruling SLD-UP coalition, it might still achieve over 8% of the vote, which would translate into five Euro deputies. Poland will have 54 out of the 732 deputies in the European Parliament. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A3) M.M.