90% of those polled agree that, before making major decisions, public administration bodies should be interested in the opinion of citizens, as opposed to 7% who think that public administration bodies are here to make decisions and should not bother citizens and ask for their opinion. To a certain extent, the opinion of citizens is actively sought by local administration bodies only, while citizens are unaware of activities of other bodies of the public administration.
A somewhat better assessment was given in respect of the extent to which these bodies are willing to listen to the public. Nevertheless, the positive results predominate only in local administration bodies. It needs to be pointed out, that the Czech public does not have sufficient experience in this area. It is interesting to note that five out of ten people are afraid that their opinions will be harder to enforce when some of the decision-making powers are transferred to the EU bodies, whereas four out of ten people are not concerned about this. Eight out of ten sympathisers of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) are afraid of the above transfer.
