(Angus Reid Global Scan) - The opposition Civic Platform (PO) remains the top political organization in Poland, according to a poll by TNS OBOP. 27 per cent of respondents would vote for the PO in next month's legislative election.

The Law and Justice Party (PiS) is second with 23 per cent, followed by the Self-Defence of the Polish Republic (SRP) with eight per cent, and the governing Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) also with eight per cent. Support is lower for the League of Polish Families (LPR), the Social Democracy of Poland (SDP), the Peasant's Party (PSL) and the Democratic Party of Poland (PD).

On May 18, Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski announced that the election to renew the two houses of Parliament would take place on Sept. 25.

Prime minister Leszek Miller stepped down in May 2004 after Poland officially joined the European Union (EU). Miller had administered the government since 2001, but lost his majority after a split with the PSL in March 2003. Kwasniewski appointed SLD member Marek Belka as acting prime minister.

Earlier this month, Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Angela Merkel met with Kwasniewski, Belka and PO presidential candidate Donald Tusk in Warsaw. Merkel promised closer ties with Poland should she be in charge of the government following the Sept. 18 ballot, and criticized the policies of current German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, declaring, "There must be no decisions concerning relations with Russia taken over the head of Poland."

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