TABLE-Czech rightists maintain lead after govt confirmed

    The Czech rightist Civic 
Democrats continue to hold a lead over the leftist opposition 
Social Democrats after their centre-right cabinet won a 
parliamentary vote of confidence last week, a poll showed. 
    The Civic Democrats formed the cabinet with the centrist 
Christian Democrats and the Green Party. 
    The poll, by the private Factum Invenio agency, was 
conducted between Jan. 19 and Jan. 24 among 975 Czechs. 
    It said that according to the poll results, the government 
coalition would win 107 seats in the lower house to 93 for 
leftist parties. 
    The coalition now holds just 100 seats and it squeezed 
through the confidence vote thanks to the abstention of two 
rebel leftist deputies. 
    The poll also showed that only a quarter of Czechs believed 
the cabinet would serve its full term until 2010 and only one 
third thought it would be able to push through its programme in 
the hung parliament. 
     
 DATE    INSTITUTE   ODS    CSSD   KSCM   KDU-CSL  Greens 
 Jan 26    FI        36.5   29.5   14.1    7.3       7.6 
 Jan 16    STEM      32.3   20.9   12.4    7.5      11.1 
 Dec 20    CVVM      38.0   23.5   11.5   11.0      12.0 
 Dec 15    STEM      32.9   20.6   13.1    7.0      11.2 
 Dec 07    FI        35.8   30.9   14.3    6.6       7.2 
 Nov 23    CVVM      41.0   26.0   11.0    7.0      11.0 
 Nov 15    STEM      35.1   20.7   10.9    7.5       9.4 
 Nov 10    FI        41.1   27.7   12.7    6.0       7.1 
 Oct 23    CVVM      36.0   30.5   15.0    6.0       9.5 
 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        41.0   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. 
 

[PRAGUE/Reuters/Finance.cz]