Poll: Social Democrats fortify lead over Civic Democrats

If an election had been held in November, then the opposition Social Democrats would have won with 42.7 percent of the vote, suggests a poll conducted by the Median agency and released on Tuesday. The ruling Civic Democrats would have finished second with some 29.1 percent of the vote. The Civic Democrats’ coalition partners, the Greens, would have failed to secure the five-percent share of the vote to remain in Parliament. The Median poll found that Jiří Paroubek’s Social Democrats had increased their popularity by more than three percentage points on last month’s figures, the only other political party to gain in popularity was the Christian Democrats, which would have secured 5.9 percent of the votes cast.