Political

According to the April survey of the Public Opinion Research Centre, 52 % of Czech citizens are interested in current events in Ukraine.Respondents were also asked about their evaluation of the current activities of various groups in the conflict,about active participation of international community in solving the situation and trust toward selected Ukrainian politicians.The survey was conducted during the escalation of the cricis in eastern regions.

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In the April survey the Public Opinion Research Centre has focused on the forthcoming elections to the European Parliament.

In April 2014 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 Chambers of Parliament, President, Government, Local and Regional Councils.

In April 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.

As a part of March survey, CVVM examined views of Czechs on importance of different kind of elections. Citizens in the survey attributed the most importance to municipal elections, presidential elections and elections to the Chamber od Deputies. As the least important was seen coming European Parliament election.

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In March 2014 CVVM SOÚ AV ČR investigated whether respondents trust to selected top politicians. They were given a list with 27 names of top politicians. In a survey there were included names of membres of Parliament, president, chairmen of Senate and Chamber of Deputies, leaders of political parties in Parliament and chief of Constitutional Court.

As a part of March survey there were some questions focused on interest of Czech citizens to the topis of corruption. We were interested in the views of citizens on the prevalence of bribery among public officials and opinion on the level of corruption in different institutions and areas of public life.

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In March survey the Public Opinion Research Center examined how the inhabitants of the Czech Republic assess the political culture of public officials and politicians: members of the governments, deputies, senators, representatives of regional and local self-governments and politicians from current parliamentary political parties.

In March 2014 was part of a regular survey of Public Opinion Research inquiry about citizens' trust in the selected social institutions. Confidence significantly prevails in a case of army and radio. Trust over mistrust prevailed slightly also in NGOs. Churches are seemed as the least trustworthy institution.

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In the March survey the Public Opinion Research Center has focused on the forthcoming elections to the European Parliament.