Most Poles want opposition to work with gov't on Belarus border crisis: survey

Seven in ten Poles want opposition parties to work together with the government on solving the migrant crisis on the frontier with Belarus, according to a new opinion poll, the state PAP news agency reported on Sunday.  

Most Poles want opposition parties to work together with the government on solving the migrant crisis on the frontier with Belarus, according to a new opinion poll.

PAP/ITAR-TASS Leonid Shcheglov

The survey was conducted by SW Research for the rp.pl website, which carried the results on Sunday. 

Respondents were asked if they thought that Poland's opposition groupings should cooperate with the authorities on solving the migrant crisis, rp.pl noted. 

To this question, 68.9 percent answered yes, with 8.4 percent disagreeing and 21.8 percent having no opinion in the matter, PAP reported.  

Support for opposition's cooperation with the government was higher among men (71 percent), those with basic vocational education (72 percent), respondents earning between PLN 2,000-3,000 (EUR 430-650) (76 percent) and those living in cities of between 100,000-199,000 inhabitants (85 percent), SW Research said.

Moreover, the percentage of those who wished to see the opposition work with the government increased with age, from 56 percent among those aged 24 or less, to 75% among repondents aged over 50, the pollster added, quoted by PAP. 

The poll was carried out on a random quota sample of 800 users of SW Research's online panel, aged over 18. The sample was weighted to reflect the relevant socio-demographic characteristics of Poland's over-18 population, PAP reported.

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Source: PAP, rp.pl