EU-sceptic parties gain strength in Poland, poll shows
Taken together, three Polish parties that lean towards a nationalist agenda and have sceptical or hostile attitudes towards the EU have garnered support from nearly half of respondents to a recent poll.
The current main governing party, the centrist Civic Coalition (KO), came first on 28.8 percent, but the former ruling party, the socially-conservative and Eurosceptic Law and Justice (PiS) was not far behind on 27.9 percent, according to an IBRiS poll for the private broadcaster Polsat News, published on Monday.
Two far-right and openly anti-EU parties, Confederation and The Confederation of the Polish Crown, got 14.7 and 6 percent respectively. Together with PiS, their combined support reached as much as 48.6 percent.
The two remaining parties in the coalition government, the centre-right Third Way and The Left, garnered 6.9 percent and 5.6 percent, respectively. Thus the combined support for the three governing coalition partners reached 41.3 percent.
The leftist Together Party could count on 3.2 percent of the vote.
The expected turnout, if parliamentary elections had been held last Sunday, would have been 70.7 percent.
The survey came two weeks after the second round of the presidential election, in which right-wing historian Karol Nawrocki, who is supported by PiS, surprisingly beat KO's Rafal Trzaskowski, the mayor of Warsaw.
IBRiS carried out the survey on a sample of 1,000 Poles from June 12 to 14, 2025. (PAP)
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