About two thirds (68 %) of Czech citizens do not agree with planned deployment of U.S. anti-missile radar in Czech Republic, on the other hand a quarter (26 %) of respondents would approve it. More than three quarters (77 %) of respondents expressed their opinion that this question should be decided in a referendum, 18 % of Czechs disagree with holding a plebiscite in this matter. People who are against the referendum are for the most part supporters of idea to locate the U.

The president has been the most trustworthy constitutional institution in the long term and he enjoys trust expressed by almost three quarters of Czech citizens at this time (74 %). In the beginning of April the Government was found trustworthy by three out of ten Czechs. In comparison to previous month number of those who trust to Government has little dropped. Currently 23 % of Czech public find Chamber of Deputies trustworthy, while nearly a quarter of people (24 %) confide in Senate.

In April 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.

Party preferences give us information about public sympathy with political Parties in the group of citizens who have voting right and there is also included a part of citizens who will not take part in elections or they do not knot who to vote for.

In March 2007 CVVM used some questions focused on public tolerance to some groups of people. Czechs were show a list of 14 groups of people and they had to say, whether they would not want these people as their neighbours. Negative attitude to neighbourhood of four groups was expressed by Czech people. These groups consist of drug addicts, 87 % of Czech would not want them to be their neighbours. Four fifths of Czech citizens (81 %) would not like to live close to alcoholics and 77 % of Czechs would not want people with criminal past in their neighbourhood.

In March 2007 CVVM SOÚ AV ČR did a survey, what affairs in public and political life are according to Czechs compatible with holding office and which ones should lead to resignation of a politician. Most Czech people take radical attitude to politicians who are sentenced or charged of crime (this is in both cases – when a crime relates to holding office and when a crime is not in relation to holding office as well) – agreement with resignation was almost unanimous.

The results of March survey CVVM show us that Czech citizens mostly discuss about political topics with their family members and friends. Before survey at least once a week a half of respondents (50 %) discussed political topics with family members and 53 % people talked about it with friends or colleagues. Only 7 % of Czech citizens spoke about it with other people and 4 % of respondents with publicly active person.

In March survey 2007, CVVM SOÚ AV ČR asked Czech citizens the question concerning political and public affairs. Most people agree with the statement that public should be informed about public and political affairs (95 %). Most Czech public also share an opinion that (86 %) that it is very difficult to know a lot about these situations. Almost same number of Czechs (84 %) think that a lot of scandals are dissimulated.

Popularity of Party Representatives

In March 2007 CVVM SOÚ AV ČR investigated whether respondents trust to selected politicians. They were given a list with 24 names of top politicians who represent political Parties present in Chamber of Deputies.

Among Party representatives Vlasta Parkanová was found most trustworthy (58 %).She is followed by Prague city major Pavel Bém (50 % of trustees) and by vice-chairman of ČSSD Bohuslav Sobotka (38 %) and leader of Greens Martin Bursík (36 %).

The president has been the most trustworthy constitutional institution in the long term and he enjoys trust expressed by almost three quarters of Czech citizens at this time. In the beginning of March the Government was found trustworthy by more than a third of Czechs. In comparism to previous month number of those who trust to Government has increased. Currently 23 % of Czech public find Chamber of Deputies trustworthy , while a quarter of people (25 %) confide in Senate.

20 % of citizens regard taxation on high-income earners as high, 24 % say it is adequate and 43 % think it is low. Taxation on average-income earners is considered to be high by 47 % of respondents, adequate by 42 % and low by 2 % of citizens. Taxation on low-income earners was supposed to be high by two thirds of people (66 %), adequate by 23 % and low by 2 %. 71 % of respondents think that tax rate should be higher for high-income earners than for low-income earners.