Political

In early February 2014, the Public Opinion Research Center conducted a survey on attitudes of citizens of the Czech Republic concerning equality and fairness in the political system, and respect for human rights.

In March 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.

According to the March survey of the Public Opinion Research Centre, 64 % 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 and about active participation of international community in solving the situation.The survey was conducted during the escalation of the Crimea crisis.

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In February of this year, respondents of the Public Opinion Research Centre evaluated the urgency of solving in some areas of public life. The most urgent problems are supposed to be unemployment and corruption.

In March 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.

In February 2014 Public Opinion Research Centre investigated how citizens evaluate the system change, which occurred in 1989. In January or February of this year under the umbrella of CEORG a comparable research was done in Poland, Hungary and the Slovak Republic.

In February 2014 CVVM investigated how people evaluate their possibilities to influence public affairs. Specifically, questions concered to possibility to openly express view of problems in society, in the town, in the state and the posibility to achieve their legitimate requests. We asked respondents to assess their possibilities to influence political decision-making and also the effectiveness of each activity. This press release offer comparison with previous surveys which were realized from 1997.

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As a part of February survey there were some questions focused on general attitudes to politics and political events of Czech citizens in the country.

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As a part of February survey there were some questions focused on interest of Czech citizens in political events in the country as well as in the world and on involvement of Czech citizens in political and public life.

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18% of Czech citizens would agree with return to the communist way of government, about the same share would approve authoritarian regime of strong leader with no parliament and with no elections, while three quarters of public disagree. Only 3% of Czechs think that the country should be governed by military, 94% dismissed such an idea.