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Support for Poland's gov't drops to 19% 2 days ahead of parliamentary confidence vote
Warsaw. (Interfax Europe) - In a public opinion poll in Poland, support for current Prime Minister Marek Belka's government fell 3 percentage points to account for 19% of the population at the start of October from September, according to the country's top pollster, CBOS.
For the prime minister himself, public support dropped one percentage point to 30%, the CBOS poll said.
This comes just ahead of the much-anticipated October 15 parliamentary confidence vote for the Cabinet. Belka's government is widely expected to pass the vote, but if it fails, new elections will be called.
Political instability running up to the May resignation of Belka's predecessor, Leszek Miller, caused a stir on financial markets, pushing down the currency and the bond market. Since the market-friendly Belka has put in place his Cabinet, the markets have calmed and the currency has rebounded, hitting a five-year high to the US dollar and a 17-month high to the euro earlier this week.
The poll also said that the public's confidence that Belka's government will improve the general economic situation fell to 27% from 29% in September. The number of respondents confident that the economic situation could not be improved rose 1 percentage point to 49% in the poll and 24%, up one percentage point, were undecided.
The poll was conducted between October 1 and October 4 among 998 adult Poles.
(Source: http://www.interfax.com/com?item=Pol&pg=0&id=5762202&req=) |
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