Poll: Civic Democrats would win elections if they were held today

A new poll released by the Median agency has suggested that if elections were held in the Czech Republic today they would be won by the ruling Civic Democrats. According to the poll, the party would clinch more than 40 percent of the vote, with the Social Democrats - the country's second largest party - finishing fifteen points behind. All three of the remaining parliamentary parties would also pass the required five percent threshold. According to the poll the Communist Party would finish third (with more than 12 percent), the Greens fourth (with 8 percent), and the Christian Democrats fifth (with more than 7 percent).