TABLE-Czech leftists close gap amid political crisis

    PRAGUE, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The Czech leftist Social 
Democrats have narrowed the gap against the rightist Civic 
Democrats as the country struggles through a parliamentary 
crisis after an inconclusive election, a poll showed on Monday. 
    Civic Democrat leader Mirek Topolanek was nominated as prime 
minister last month and is now seeking 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. 
    Topolanek has been holding talks with three other parties -- 
the Social Democrats, the Christian Democrats and the Green 
Party -- aimed at clinching a deal for majority support of a 
broad coalition government. 
    The poll by the CVVM agency was conducted between Nov. 30 and 
Dec. 6 among 947 Czechs. 
      
 DATE    INSTITUTE   ODS    CSSD   KSCM   KDU-CSL  Greens 
 Dec 07    FI        38.8   30.9   14.3    6.6       7.2 
 Nov 23    CVVM      29.5   18.5    8.0    5.0       8.0 
 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 Gill Tudor; prague.newsroom@reuters.com; Reuters 
Messaging: alan.crosby.reuters.com@reuters.net; +420-224 190 
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  Keywords: CZECH POLITICS POLL