SLD popularity 20% lower than during last election

Low popularity ratings do not seem to have discouraged the Democratic Left A lliance (SLD) with no perceptible signs of surprise or worry among the party 's members. Such an optimistic attitude may be baffling, since according to a CBOS poll, SLD's support is only 3% higher than that for Law and Justice (PiS), and 20% lower than during the last elections. "I'm not at all disconc erted," said Jerzy Wenderlich. Such a standpoint is presumably just keeping up appearances or strong faith that things might change for the better. Józe f Oleksy seems to be the only one skeptically inclined and is ready to pinpo int the Alliance's weakness as, "connected with a certain incompetence in go verning, yet it is difficult for me to be more precise". It may well be that the drop in ratings might have been instigated by Leszek Miller's detrimenta l words addressed to Zbigniew Ziobro in front of the Sejm inquiry commission , or maybe linked with a parallel boost in PiS's popularity. (www.rmf.pl) A .C.