According to the March survey of CVVM, 64% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 27% view it as neither good nor bad and 8% consider it to be good.

In February 2012 CVVM investigated how citizens perceive the personality of the late former President Vaclav Havel. Under the umbrella of CEORG in February of this year some questions from the survey were also enquired among respondents in Poland, Hungary and the Slovak Republic.

Czech citizens are critical when talking about political culture of most of politically active people. The exception are members of Municipal Councils. In this case prevails positively evaluation (52/36 % . The worst evaluation got political culture of members of Chamber of Deputy (11/86 %).

According to major part of czech citizens (73 %) arguments, problems and scandals are common and occur in other democracies, although major part of addressed respondents (84 %) expressed their opinion that these argumentations and scandals discredit us abroad. Almost all respondents (91 %) agreed that there is need to inform public about the problems, argumentations and scandals, because czech politicians need to be under control of public. Citizen opinions of political culture in our country prove that three quarters of czech citizens think,that these political disputations and scandals, that occur in public - serve only to settle one's account. And a half of people do not agree with that it serves to settle the objective arguments.

As a part of March CVVM survey there was a question investigating citizens' trust to Courts, Police, Army, Media, Labour Unions, Churches, Banks and NGOs. The press information covers also a longterm development of trust to these public institutions.

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In March 2012 CVVM SOÚ AV ČR investigated whether respondents trust to selected top politicians. They were given a list with 27 names of top politicians. In a survey there were included names of membres of Parliament,  president, chairmen of Senate and Chamber of Deputies, leaders of political parties in Parliament and chief of Constitutional Court.

In January 2012 CVVM investigated, how Czech citizens evaluate material living conditions of their households and economic situation in the Czech Republic. Survey on this theme was also carried out in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.

In March 2012 within the regular survey CVVM SOÚ AV ČR, v.v.i., questioned respondents about their confidence in constitutional institutions. In this month there was a question about their trust to Chambers of Parliament, Government, President, Local and Regional Councils.

In february 2012 CVVM investigated how people evaluate their possibilities to influence political decision-making and public affairs.

According to the February survey of CVVM, 66% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 26% view it as neither good nor bad and 7% consider it to be good.

In March survey CVVM investigated how people trust to political Parties and whether they are willing to take part in elections to Chamber of Deputies. In the press release there are two different types of information: Party preference and a model of voting behaviour.