Political

In its February survey CVVM explored the views of Czech citizens in political system and the functioning of democracy in our country. Questions concerned the evaluation of democracy as a form of government, satisfaction with the way democracy works in our country, likelihood of dissolution of parliament and abolition of all political parties and attitudes of Czech citizens to such a situation.

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In February 2014, the Public Opinion Research Centre examined views on the involvement of citizens in decision-making processes.

In February survey, the Public Opinion Research Centre focused on evaluation of Jiří Rusnok's government. 39% of Czechs were satisfied with the person of Prime Minister, 48% were dissatisfied, 31% were satisfied with government's performance and 56% were not.

According to the February survey of the Public Opinion Research Centre, 40 % 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 before the last escalation of the conflict.

In February 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 January 2014 Public Opinion Research Centre carried out a survey concerning NATO, its necessity as a military-political organization and the influence of existence and conduct of NATO on the security of its members, the relationships within and outside the organization, on the peace and stability and on the treatment of terrorism threat.

In January 2014, citizens of the Czech Republic evaluated how satisfied they are with the situation in 29 selected areas of public life. The best evaluated areas are the selection of goods and services (75% satisfied) and culture (61%). The worst evaluated items are corruption (88% dissatisfied), unemployment (85%),  economic crime (80%), the situation in public finances (68%), and the area of social security (69%).

In February 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 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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