Survey: Czechs rated the EU Presidency an average of three
Update: 27/12/2022 10:44
Issued by: 27/12/2022, 09:23
Prague – Czechs would rate the ending Czech presidency of the Council of the European Union with an average of three. It follows from the December one survey agency Median for Czech Radio. The school-like rating, i.e. from one to five, varied a lot depending on which political party the respondents would vote for. Supporters of the governing parties perceive the Czech presidency much more positively than voters of both opposition movements.
Mark four was used by 17 percent of respondents overall, but among ANO voters it was 24 percent, and among SPD supporters even 33 percent, Median director Přemysl Čech said. The worst five percent of participants in the Czech presidency were 13 voters, for ANO it was 21 percent.
Conversely, on the other side of the scale, positive votes prevail from the voters of the Pirates, STAN and the Spolu coalition, i.e. ODS, KDU-ČSL and TOP 09. A total of 12 percent of respondents used the mark one, but among the voters of the five government parties it was around 30 percent.
21 percent gave the Czech presidency a two, and 22 percent gave it a three.
The survey also sought public opinion on whether the government should comply with President Miloš Zeman’s call to speed up the decision to move the Czech embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Roughly a third of respondents think that the government should accommodate Zeman, half are against it, and 19 percent of respondents do not know. More than 70 percent of government party supporters reject Zeman’s demand, while according to 56 percent of SPD voters, the government should speed up the decision to move the embassy.
According to a recent statement, Zeman assumes that the government will approve the move of the Czech embassy. He suggested to Prime Minister Petr Fial (ODS) that they fly to Israel together and open an embassy in Jerusalem. Fiala is in favor of moving the embassy, but during the presidency and the war in Ukraine, the government has to deal with more current challenges, Cabinet spokesman Václav Smolka responded at the time.