
Constitutional Tribunal judges suspended President Bogdan Święczkowski, while the United Surveys poll shows changes in support for political groups.
In the face of the crisis in the Constitutional Tribunal and the suspension of President Bogdan Święczkowski, the United Surveys poll for WP shows a decline in support for the Civic Coalition and an increase in the ratings of Law and Justice.
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There was a dispute over competences in the Constitutional Tribunal and the management of a group of judges was suspended.
On Friday, representatives of the judges elected to the Constitutional Tribunal by the Sejm of the current term announced that Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, as the oldest one, became the head of the Constitutional Tribunal and issued an order suspending the activities of the President of the Constitutional Tribunal, Bogdan Święczkowski, and the Vice-President, Bartłomiej Sochański.
The protest in front of the Constitutional Tribunal's headquarters intensified. President Karol Nawrocki interrupted his trip to Senegal and returned to Warsaw, where he met, among others, with the First President of the Supreme Court, Zbigniew Kapiński, and then came to the seat of the Constitutional Tribunal.
The Civic Coalition is leading, but...
On November 2, after the violent events around the Constitutional Tribunal, in the atmosphere of a severe political crisis, Poles answered the question who they would vote for in the parliamentary elections.
The United Surveys by IBRiS survey for Wirtualna Polska shows that the Civic Coalition could count on 27.2 percent. support. This is a result of 2.5 percentage points. lower than in the previous study conducted for WP.
Law and Justice came second, chosen by 18.2 percent. respondents. Jarosław Kaczyński's party recorded an increase by 1 percentage point.
Confederation would be third with support at 13.3%. (increase by 0.1 percentage point). Right behind it was Grzegorz Braun's Konfederacja Korona Polskiej, which would be chosen by 11.6 percent. respondents (increase by 0.6 percentage points).
Six groups in the Sejm
According to the survey, the electoral threshold would also be crossed by Nowa Lewica (with a result of 7.1 percent, a decrease of 0.2 percentage points) and Rozwoju Plus by Mateusz Morawiecki, which obtained 5.2 percent. indications (decrease by 1 percentage point).
Outside the Sejm would be the Razem Party, supported by 3.8 percent. respondents (an increase of 0.6 percentage points), and the Polish People's Party with a result of 2.9 percent. (decrease by 1.5 percentage points). Poland 2050 did not receive any indications in the study, which - according to WP - is a decrease of 0.4 percentage points.
10.7 percent were undecided. survey participants.
Right wing with 258 seats
From the conversion of results into mandates, prepared using the model of prof. Jarosław Flis from the Jagiellonian University shows that KO would have the most MPs - 172.
PiS would introduce 108 representatives to the Sejm, Konfederacja 73, and Konfederacja Korony Polskiej - 61. The New Left could count on 30 seats, and Rozwoju Plus on 16.

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