Nearly half of Poles had bad opinion of govt’s work in June: poll

In June, 47 percent of Poles had a bad opinion of the government’s work even as 43 percent assessed well, shows the latest survey conducted by research company Kantar Public. As many as 10 percent of the respondents did not have a specific opinion on this subject. Since 2015, Poland has been ruled with a fragile majority by the right-wing nationalist and populist Law and Justice (PiS) party that has been accused of democratic backsliding, in addition to homophobia, xenophobia and attempting to control the judiciary and media.

Overall, 45 percent of Poles positively evaluated the work of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (+6 percentage points change on a monthly basis), and the percentage of negative opinions was 46 (-4 percentage points). Interestingly, 9 percent of the respondents were unable to clearly assess the prime minister’s work (-2 percentage points).

The study was conducted on July 3-8 on a nationwide representative sample of 1,011 Polish residents aged 15 and over.

(PAP)