Ruling camp maintains safe lead in voter support poll

Warsaw, Jan. 6: Poland's ruling United Right coalition would be supported by 38 percent of voters if elections were held now, outstripping its main rival, the centrist Civic Coalition (KO), by 14 percentage points, a new poll has found. According to a Social Changes poll for the right-wing website wPolityce.pl, the United Right, composed of its backbone party Law and Justice, Solidary Poland and the Republicans, has increased its support from the previous survey by 2 percentage points while KO has lost 1 percentage point and is now backed by 24 percent of respondents. Poland 2050, a grassroots movement led by TV personality and Catholic writer Szymon Holownia, could count on 13 percent of the voters, unchanged from the last survey.