TABLE-Czech rightists raise lead amid parlt crisis

    Oct 16 (Reuters) -  The Czech right-wing Civic Democrats 
have increased 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 Monday. 
    The Civic Democrat government lost a confidence vote earlier 
this month but remains in office as a caretaker administration 
while political parties seek to end the stalemate after leftist 
and centre-right parties each won 100 seats in a June general 
election. 
    The Civic Democrats want a technocratic government and an 
early election next year, while the Social Democrats want a 
grand coalition of the two biggest parties, which would rule for 
two years before a fresh vote. 
    The poll by the Factum Invenio agency was conducted between 
October 6 and 12 among 969 Czechs. 
    It showed a centre right coalition including the Civic 
Democrats, the Greens and the Christian Democrats would have a 
comfortable majority of 110 seats in the 200-seat lower house. 
    The three parties together won exactly 100 seats in the June 
election, exactly the same as the leftist Social Democrats and 
the Communists. 
      
 DATE    INSTITUTE   ODS    CSSD   KSCM   KDU-CSL  Greens 
 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 Jan Lopatka in Prague) 
 ((Editing by     ; prague.newsroom@reuters.com; Reuters 
Messaging: jan.lopatka.reuters.com@reuters.net; +420-224 190 
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  Keywords: CZECH POLITICS POLL