TABLE-Czech rightists widen lead amid parlt crisis

    Nov 15 (Reuters) - The Czech rightist Civic Democrats have 
widened their lead over the leftist Social Democrats as the 
country struggles through a parliamentary crisis that resulted 
from an inconclusive election, a poll showed on Wednesday. 
    Civic Democrat leader Mirek Topolanek was nominated as prime 
minister last week and is now searching to end the stalemate 
after leftist and centre-right parties each won 100 seats in a 
June general election. 
    It is the second time since the June election that Topolanek 
has been appointed to the post. A minority Civic Democrat 
government lost a confidence vote in the lower house last month 
but remains in office as a caretaker administration. 
    The poll by the STEM agency was conducted between Nov. 1-8 
among 1,554 Czechs. 
    It showed the Civic Democrats would come close to being able 
to form a majority government on their with 91 seats in the 
200-seat lower house if an election were held in November. 
      
 DATE    INSTITUTE   ODS    CSSD   KSCM   KDU-CSL  Greens 
 Nov 15    STEM      31.5   20.7   10.9    7.5       9.4 
 Nov 10    FI        41.1   27.7   12.7    6.0       7.1 
 Oct 16    FI        35.9   27.2   13.9    6.9       8.4 
 Oct 15    STEM      32.0   22.7   11.7    6.3      10.5 
 Sept 22   CVVM      37.0   29.5   13.0    8.0      10.0 
 Sept 21   STEM      32.8   26.6   10.0    4.2      10.3 
 Sept 18   FI        36.3   32.0   13.7    6.5       7.3 
 Aug 7     FI        41     30.8   12.3    6.3       6.9 
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June 2-3 election    35.4   32.3   12.8    7.2       6.3 
  
 NOTE. The parties are: 
 - Civic Democratic Party (ODS) - right wing, 
liberal-conservative 
 - The Czech Social Democratic Party (CSSD) - leftist 
 - Christian Democratic Union-Czechoslovak People's Party 
(KDU-CSL) - centrist 
 - The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) - far left 
 - The Greens - environmentalists, centrist. 
   Pollsters: The FI and CVVM results are based on a model 
predicting gains at the poll box, excluding those not willing to 
vote and undecided. 
   STEM results are direct voter preferences, and include  
replies from all respondents including those not willing to 
vote. Parties should thus win a larger than indicated share of 
the vote at the election. 
    (Reporting by Alan Crosby in Prague) 
 ((Editing by Chris Pizzey; prague.newsroom@reuters.com; Reuters 
Messaging: alan.crosby.reuters.com@reuters.net; +420-224 190 
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  Keywords: CZECH POLITICS POLL