Political

In its regular October survey the Public Opinion Research Centre focused on the topic of the US presidential election. Interest in the US presidential election show more than two-fifths (42%) of the Czech public, almost three fifths (57%) do not care about this topic. According to more than two fifths of Czech citizens (43%) should Hillary Clinton become the next president of the United States, 13% of the Czech citiziens prefers Donald Trump.

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Those polled who preferred a particular political party were asked a repeated question examining the intensity of the relation with this political party.

In September, the Public Opinion Research Centre asked a set of questions related to attitudes of the Czech citizens towards Czech political parties. The results suggest that majority of population adopts mainly negative attitudes towards them. Besides other things, people are convinced that political parties are interested in them only before elections; they do not feel an opportunity to change something by entering to a political party and suspect political parties from corruption. Since last year, the negative attitudes towards political parties strengthened.

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In October 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.

Voting model indicate anticipated result of elections to Chamber of Deputies in the time of the survey. Voting model comes out of Party preferences but it includes only those who want to take part in elections and they answered us a Party they would vote for – in short this group does not include undecided people and non – voters.

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In its regular September survey the Public Opinion Research Centre focused on the topic of the US presidential election. We were also interested in the opinions of the Czech public on foreign policy of the United States.

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In September 2016 Public Opinion Research Centre included a block of questions connected to accepting refugees from countries affected by military conflicts. Questions focused mainly on opinion towards accepting refugees from concrete regions (Ukraine, Middle East and North Africa), concern with the current situation around refugees and perception of the situation as a security threat. Press release shows also the comparison with public opinion in Poland.

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In September 2016 Public Opinion Research Centre included a block of questions connected to decision making process based on ordinary people or experts. Next questions focused on confidence to specific groups of people who comment on public issues in the Czech Republic.

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In September 2016 CVVM SOÚ AV ČR investigated whether respondents trust to selected  politicians. They were given a list with 30 names of top politicians who represent political parties present in the Chamber of Deputies.

In September 2016 as a part of Public Opinion Research Centre's survey there was a question investigating citizens' trust to some social institutions.

In September 2016 within the regular survey CVVM SOÚ AV ČR, v.v.i., 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.