Support for Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s centre-right ANO party has
risen 3.5 percentage points (pp) to 33.5 percent since September, according
to the latest poll by the Centre for Public Opinion Research (CVVM).
ANO’s coalition partner, the left-leaning Social Democrats (ČSSD) polled
at 10 percent and the Communists, whose support the minority government
relies on, polled at 8.5 percent.
Meanwhile, support for the anti-immigrant, anti-EU Freedom and Direct
Democracy party (SPD) led by Tomio Okamura dropped by 4 pp to 4.5 percent
– 0.5 pp below the threshold for gaining seats in the lower house of
Parliament.
The opposition Pirate Party is now polling at 14 percent, up 1 pp, and the
centre-right Civic Democrats (ODS) at 13.5 percent, up 1.5 pp.
The Christian Democrats (KDU-ČSL) polled at the 5 percent, TOP 09 at 4
percent, and the Mayors and Independents (STAN) at 2.5 percent, a drop of 2
pp.
The CVVM poll was conduction from 4 to 20 October, after the constituent
assembly of the new right-wing Tricolour party of Václav Klaus Jr, which
polled at 3 percent.