PM’s new job helps ruling party – poll

The fact that Prime Minister Donald Tusk was chosen European Council president will have a positive impact on the image of the Civic Platform among voters, according to the majority of respondents in a TNS Polska poll for Polish Television. Some 14 percent of the respondents said it would be a “definitely positive” impact and 32 percent called it a “rather positive” impact. At the same time 18 percent said the consequences would be negative. TNS Polska also found that 34 percent of the respondents would vote for the Civic Platform in parliamentary elections, putting the party in lead and adding 10 percentage points since a poll conducted in June. The party’s main rival Law and Justice, together with Solidarna Polska and Poland Together, would get 28 percent of the votes, according to the September poll. The result was 3 points lower than the one recorded by Law and Justice alone in June. The Democratic Left Alliance would get 9 percent of the votes, the Polish People’s Party and the New Right would get 5 percent each. Your Move would be left out of parliament, with 2 percent of the votes.