President reclaims spot as Poland’s most trusted politician

President Andrzej Duda has regained his position as Poland’s most trusted politician, with 49 percent of respondents in a new survey expressing confidence in him.

Polish President Andrzej Duda.

Photo: Marek Borawski/KPRP

Pollster CBOS said trust in the president increased by 3 percentage points compared with a similar survey a month earlier.

At the same time, 37 percent of respondents said they did not trust Duda, a decrease of 4 percentage points from last month, Polish state news agency PAP reported.

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Warsaw Mayor and presidential candidate Rafał Trzaskowski was named the second-most trusted politician in the country, with 47 percent of those surveyed saying they have confidence in him.

Rafał Trzaskowski. Photo: Polish Radio

Lower-house Speaker Szymon Hołownia came in third, with 45 percent, the CBOS poll found.

Szymon Hołownia. PAP/Rafał Guz

Meanwhile, opposition leader Jarosław Kaczyński and former conservative Education Minister Przemysław Czarnek are the most distrusted politicians in the country, followed by current Prime Minister Donald Tusk, according to the survey.

Fifty-seven percent of respondents said they distrusted Kaczyński, while 50 percent expressed distrust in Czarnek.

Forty-seven percent said they distrusted Tusk, CBOS reported.

The survey was carried out from November 8 to 21 on a sample of 981 respondents.

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Source: PAP