WARSAW, April 7 (Reuters) - Support among Poles for joining the euro has fallen to 32 percent, the lowest level on record, a survey by pollster CBOS released on Thursday showed.
The survey, conducted on March 3-9 among 950 Poles, showed the number of people either "strongly" or "tending to be" in favour of swapping zlotys for euros had dropped by nine percentage points from a year ago.
The total opposed to the euro has now reached 60 percent, up 11 points from last year, the survey showed.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's centrist, pro-EU government had originally set 2012 as its target date for joining the euro but the global financial crisis and then the debt crisis in the euro zone itself scuppered those plans.
Poland does not currently meet all the criteria for euro membership, especially with a budget deficit of around eight percent of gross domestic product, more than twice the European Union's 3 percent ceiling.
Tusk's government says the 17-nation euro zone needs to resolve its sovereign debt crises before adding new members.
Euro membership remains an official strategic goal for the Tusk government but some Poles have cooled to the idea as the sharp fall in the free-floating zloty during the global financial crisis helped Poland escape recession.
Poland is by far the largest of the ex-communist economies that have joined the European Union since 2004. (Writing by Maciej Onoszko, editing by Gareth Jones/Ruth Pitchford) (maciej.onoszko@thomsonreuters.com; +48 22 653 9711; RM:maciej.onoszko.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))