Political Situation

In January this year, citizens of the Czech Republic evaluated how satisfied they are with the situation in selected areas of public life, and tried to anticipate future developments in these areas.

In March, the Centre for Public Opinion Research also investigated how Czech citizens evaluate the political culture of publicly-employed people.

In December 2009 CVVM survey posed a few questions on basic satisfaction with the chosen areas of public life. People were most satisfied with supply of goods and services (75 % "satisfied") and culture (55 %). Dissatisfaction was related mainly to unemployment (80 %) and corruption (79 % "dissatisfied").

As a part of June survey realized by CVVM there was a question asking how would informants evaluate some areas of public life. People were most satisfied with supply of goods and services (76 % of respondents expressed their satisfaction), with current situation of Czech culture (61 %) and with relationships of the Czech Republic with foreign countries (48 %). On the contrary dissatisfaction prevails with such areas as a corruption and economical criminality.

In March 2009 CVVM focused on political culture and political Parties in Czech Republic.

According to major part of czech citizens (81%) arguments, problems and scandals are common and occur in other democracies, although major part of addressed respondents (82%) expressed their opinion that these argumentations and scandals discredit us abroad.

Almost all respondents (90%) agreed that there is need to inform public about the problems, argumentations and scandals, because czech politicians need to be under control of public.

In March 2007 CVVM SOÚ AV ČR provided 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.

In December 2008, January 2009 and February 2009 survey CVVM posed a few questions on a basic satisfaction with the chosen areas of public life. People were most satisfied with supply of goods and services (68 % "satisfied") and culture (51 %). Dissatisfaction was related mainly to corruption (75 % "dissatisfied") followed by economic crime (69 %), political situation (64 %) and social benefits (62 %).

As a part of June survey realized by CVVM there was a question which asked how informants would evaluate some areas of public life. People are most satisfied with supply of goods and services (80 % of respondents expressed their satisfaction), with current situation of Czech culture (60 %) and with relationships of the Czech Republic with foreign countries (45 %). On the contrary dissatisfaction prevails with such areas as a corruption and economical criminality.

In March 2007 CVVM focused on political culture in Czech Republic. According to major part of czech citizens arguments, problems and scandals are common and occur in other democracies, although major part of addressed respondents expressed their opinion that these argumentations and scandals discredit us abroad. Almost all respondents agreed that there is need to inform public about the problems, argumentations and scandals, because czech politicians need to be under control of public.

The situation is the same as in previous years. People are most satisfied with supply of goods and services (73 % of respondents expressed their satisfaction), with current situation of Czech culture (58 %) and with relationships of the Czech Republic with foreign countries (45 %). On the contrary dissatisfaction prevails with such areas as a corruption and economical criminality. 73 % of Czech citizens are dissatisfied with economical criminality and 79 % of people are discontented with corruption.