Political

In December survey the Public Opinion Research Centre focused on situation in Syria.

The survey examined how Czech public is interested in the development of situation on the border of Syria and Turkey, how Czech citizens perceive the impact of the situation on Czech, European and global safety, and how they evaluate performance of some participating actors in current events on the border of Syria and Turkey.

In the December survey the Public Opinion Research Centre examined a set of questions concerning the UK leaving the EU.

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In December 2019 within the regular survey CVVM SOÚ AV ČR, questioned respondents about their confidence in constitutional institutions. In this month there was a question about their trust to the Chambers of Parliament, the President, the Government, and Local and Regional Councils.

In December 2019 Public Opinion Resear Centre carried out a survey about the development of situation in selected areas of public life during the year 2019.

In November 2019 survey the Public Opinion Research Centre examined whether the Czech public feels safely in the country and in the place of residence, and whether Czech citizens see some selected groups and phenomena as a great, small or no threat to the peace and security in the Czech Republic.

In a survey conducted by Public Opinion Research Centre in December 2019, we investigated how people trust to political Parties and whether they are willing to take part in elections to the Chamber of Deputies. In the press release there are two different types of information: the likely voter model and the party preferences.

The likely voter model indicates anticipated result of hypothetical elections to the Chamber of Deputies in the time of conducting the survey.

The party preferences give us information about public sympathy for 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 know who to vote for.

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November 2019 survey focused on attitudes of Czechs to some representatives in international politics. Respondents were asked to express their confidence or non-confidence in some main figures of international policy and persons involved in recent important events as well as supreme representatives of Central European countries.

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In November survey CVVM investigated how sympathetic or unsympathetic are some selected countries to the Czech public. In this survey 25 countries were selected.

The most sympathetic country among them according to Czech citizens is Slovakia followed by Austria, Sweden, Italy, France and Great Britain.

Currently, 52% respondents share the opinion that Beneš decrees should continue to be in force, 13% stood up for their cancellation, and 35% had no opinion on this issue. Another question focused on the post-war transfer of Sudeten Germans from Czech borderland in 1945-6. 41% of respondents considered this historical act to be just. On the contrary 38% marked the transfer as unjust (simultaneously majority of them claimed necessity to make a thick line behind the past) and 21 % had no opinion on this.

In October and November 2019 within the regular survey, the Public Opinion Research Centre (CVVM) questioned respondents about their confidence in some institutions including the Ombudsman, the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Audit Office, the Czech National Bank, the Office for Personal Data Protection, the Czech Academy of Sciences, public universities, the Supreme State Prosecutor, the Security information service (BIS), and the National Office for Information and Cyber Security (NÚKIB).

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