A new poll has found that President Andrzej Duda remains the country’s most trusted politician, ahead of the leader of the Poland 2050 party and the prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
In all, 56 per cent of Poles trusted Duda (up by 1 percentage point from June), while at the same time 31 per cent of Poles distrusted the head of state (down by 1 pp), according to the CBOS survey published on Friday.
Szymon Holownia, a former TV star and the leader of the Polska 2050 party, came second in the ranking, with 42 per cent trusting him (unchanged), and 31 per cent of the respondents voicing their distrust (down by 1 pp).
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki placed third. In all, 41 per cent of those polled said they trusted him (down by 3 pps), and 46 per cent voiced their distrust in the head of the government (up by 1 pp).
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the ruling Law and Justice party, and Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro topped the list of Poland’s most distrusted politicians, with 53 per cent voicing their distrust in the two politicians. The third is Donald Tusk, the leader of Poland’s largest opposition party, the Civic Platform, who is distrusted by 52 per cent of respondents.
The survey was conducted from June 27 to July 7 on a sample of 1,084 adult Poles.