Which political views are closest to Poles? A survey conducted by the National Research Group (Ogólnopolska Grupa Badawcza) shows that right-wing ideas enjoy the largest group of supporters. In November of this year, 42 percent of respondents declared identification with right-wing views.
The division of society based on political views is a phenomenon observable in nearly every country in the world where political pluralism exists. This applies both in a broad ideological sense and in the context of support for specific parties.
In Poland, this can be seen clearly in recent elections—parliamentary, European Parliament, and presidential. Leading parties such as Law and Justice (PiS) or Civic Platform (PO) can almost always count on their so-called core electorate, which tends to hover around 30–35 percent. For some time now, another right-wing grouping, Confederation (Konfederacja), has occupied third place on the Polish political scene, with support levels—according to numerous polls—of around 15 percent.
Right-wing, left-wing, or centrist views?
As it does every month, the National Research Group examined which political views Poles identify with.
According to the survey, the largest group (42 percent) sympathizes with right-wing views. The published charts show that this represents something of a “positive rebound” for right-wing supporters compared to recent months.
Centrism came in second place (28 percent). Here, a drop of as much as 4 percentage points compared to the previous month can be observed.
Eighteen percent of respondents declared identification with left-wing views, which also represents a decrease—2 percentage points in this case.
Nine percent of those surveyed have no opinion on the matter.
“In the latest survey, the largest group of respondents once again indicated right-wing views—42.66%. At the same time, the percentage of people describing their views as centrist (28.57%) and left-wing (18.99%) decreased. A slight increase was recorded for the answer ‘I don’t know,’ selected by 9.78% of respondents,” writes OGB.