Ruling party leads in election poll

Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party enjoys 43.2-percent voter support ahead of the October 13 parliamentary elections, according to the results of the latest survey by the IBRiS pollster, presented at the Economic Forum in Krynica, south Poland. The Civic Coalition (KO), an electoral alliance that integrates the major opposition party Civic Platform (PO), Nowoczesna and local-government activists, would get 21.2-pct support, according to the poll. The Left (Lewica) bloc comprising Poland's liberal and left-wing parties, the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), Spring and Together, would win 14.1 percent of the vote. The coalition between the Kukiz'15 movement and the agrarian Polish People's Party (PSL) would also enter the Sejm (lower house) with 5.7 percent support.