Political

In its regular survey in January 2014 the Public Opinion Research Centre focused on questions about the Miloš Zeman's presidency. Most Czechs think that president Zeman fulfills his constitutional functions (53 %) and he is in contact with people and knows their problems (52 %).

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January's survey of CVVM made an inquiry into the attitudes of citizens towards the constitutional competencies of the president. Questions in the survey concerned the range of presidential competencies in general and also with regard to several particular competencies such as granting of amnesty or stopping a lawsuit, dismissing the Chamber of Deputies and refusing the law passed by the parliament. Two questions asked about the role of president in appointing the Board of the Czech National Bank and in appointing the judges of the Constitutional Court.

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January's survey of CVVM asked questions regarding the attitudes towards the office of president of the Czech Republic. Questions focused on the mechanism of presidential election, the personal profile of suitable presidential candidate, his or her relations to the government and government appointment, on the position of president in the foreign policy and on the problems president should pay attention in his or her office.

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In January 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, Local and Regional Councils.

In January 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 December survey CVVM asked respondents some questions about Benes decrees.

Currently 50 % respondents share the opinion that Benes Decrees should continue to be in force, 14 % stood up for their cancellation, and 36 % had no opinion on this issue.

Another question posed was about the expulsion of Sudet-Germain people from Czech borderland in 1945-6.

In December survey CVVM investigated how sympathetic or unsympathetic are some selected countries to the Czech public. In this survey 24 countries were selected.

In December's survey people have evaluated relations of the Czech Republic with some neighbouring or globally most important countries.

In December 2013 CVVM SOÚ AV ČR, v.v.i., investigated whether respondents trust to selected top politicians. They were given a list with 27 names of top party officials.

In December 2013 Public Opinion Research Centre carried out a survey about the development of situation in selected areas of public life during the year 2013.