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Citizens opinions of electoral methods, presidential competencies and position of president I.

In the April survey, CVVM extensively treated questions concerning opinions of citizens opinions about a position of the president in political system of Czech Republic.

This press information presents first part of gained results(including previous surveys)

First of all we interrogated all the respondents about which electoral method is, according to their point of view, the most suitable for the Czech Republic.

 

The Czech public in general and also all the important subgroups of the population agree that the president of the republic should be elected by all voters. This electoral method was in total favoured by 57 % interviewees. The current electoral method (president elected by the Parliament) is considered the most suitable by almost a quarter of the respondents (23%) and 11 % view as optimal the method of election by a wider group of electors.

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