Poland’s ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party is backed by 41.8 percent of voters who say they would take part in parliamentary elections, according to the latest survey by pollster Estymator.

Meanwhile, support for the opposition Civic Platform (PO) party, which lost the last parliamentary elections in 2015, runs at 25.9 percent, the survey found.

The left-wing Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), which is now outside parliament, polled third at 9.3 percent.

The anti-establishment Kukiz’15 group would also make it into the Sejm, the lower house of parliament, on 8.2 percent, followed by the rural-based Polish People’s Party (PSL) with 6.3 percent, according to the poll, which was commissioned by the Do Rzeczy.pl news website.

The poll found no other parties would clear the 5 percent support threshold needed to enter parliament.

With such a distribution of votes, Law and Justice, which swept to power in late 2015, would secure 234 seats in Poland’s 460-seat lower house of parliament, enough to govern on its own, public broadcaster TVP Info has reported.

The survey was conducted on August 8-9 on a nationwide representative sample of 1,006 adult respondents. It does not include responses from undecided voters.

(gs/pk)

Source: TVP Info, PAP, DoRzeczy.pl