Poll indicates that Civic Democrats are most popular party

A new opinion poll suggests that the right-wing Civic Democratic Party are by far the most popular party among Czech voters. According to the poll conducted by the STEM research agency, if an election were to be held now, the governing Civic Democrats would win 81 seats in the lower house of parliament. Which has 200 members. The opposition Social Democrats would be the next strongest party with 61 seats while the Communists would come a distant third with 23 mandates followed by the Christian Democrats with 22 seats and the Green Party with 13 deputies. Such a result would give the current ruling coalition a sizable majority of 116 seats. At the moment the government only has 100 seats in parliament and is relying on rebel opposition MPs for support.