Zeman's party to enter parliament, poll confirms

Prague, Sept 24 (CTK) - The extra-parliamentary Party of Citizens' Rights of Milos Zeman (SPOZ) would win support of 7.6 percent and enter the Chamber of Deputies if a Czech general election were held now, according to a PPM Factum agency's poll released Monday.

The opposition Social Democrats maintain their position of the most popular party, with 21.5 percent, followed by the Civic Democrats (ODS) of Prime Minister Petr Necas (17.1 percent) and the Communists (KSCM), the junior opposition party (16.5 percent).

TOP 09, the ODS's junior partner, would win 10.3 percent.

Neither the opposition Public Affairs (VV) nor the government Liberal Democrats (LIDEM) seem to have a chance of entering the Chamber of Deputies, the poll showed, confirming earlier results.

On the other hand, the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) who failed in the elections two years ago would narrowly cross the 5-percent threshold (5.2 percent).

The election turnout would be 61.5 percent.

According to the agency's election model, CSSD would win 60 of the 200 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The ODS would win 47, the KSCM 42, TOP 09 24, the SPOZ 17 and the KDU-CSL 10.

Compared with the previous poll conducted in August, the KSCM slightly improved its position and support for TOP 09 slightly fell.