President Andrzej Duda became Poland’s politician of 2024; 13 percent voted for him. subjects; According to a CBOS survey, newly elected US President Donald Trump was the politician of the world last year (14 percent of the vote).
The survey asked which Polish and world politician deserved to be called the politician of 2024.
When it comes to the politician of 2024 in Poland, almost half of respondents (48%) did not indicate a single person who in their opinion deserved such an award. Among them, the largest group consisted of respondents who did not want or could not answer this question (30%). They stated that they were not interested in politics, did not know politicians and had no opinion about them. About 16 percent Respondents clearly stated that in the past year none of the representatives of the national political scene they knew distinguished themselves enough to deserve such an honorable title, and 2 percent respondents refused to answer the question.
The remaining respondents mentioned a total of more than thirty names of politicians and public figures, but only eight of them received at least 2%. to vote.
The survey shows that President Andrzej Duda won the title of Polish politician of 2024 by a minimal margin – by 13%. to vote. Second place, with a small loss for the president (the difference of less than 1 percentage point), was taken by the winner of the previous ranking, Prime Minister Donald Tusk (12 percent of the votes).
Third place went to the chairman of the Sejm, leader of Poland 2050 and presidential candidate Szymon Hołownia (4 percent of the votes), just like last year, albeit this time with a clearly weaker result.
The next positions are occupied by two other contenders for the presidency: politician of the Confederation Sławomir Mentzen and the vice-chairman of PO, the mayor of the capital, Rafał Trzaskowski (each 3% of the votes).
2% each The votes obtained were: politician of the Confederation, MEP Grzegorz Braun, PiS President Jarosław Kaczyński and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski. 1% each indications were obtained by: Vice Chairman of the Sejm Krzysztof Bosak (Confederation), Deputy Prime Minister, Head of the Ministry of National Defense and President of PSL Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (PiS), Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar and PiS member Dominik Tarczyński.
The remaining 6 percent of respondents mentioned the names of more than twenty other politicians and public figures.
Trump is the politician of 2024
In the poll, Poles awarded the title of world politician of the year 2024 to newly elected US President Donald Trump (14 percent of the votes). In second place was the winner of the previous rankings, outgoing US President Joe Biden (9 percent of the votes), and third place was taken by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, who voted for 5 percent. respondents.
In other places – from 1 percent. The results of the selection include: the losing Democratic candidate in the 2024 US presidential election, Kamala Harris, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
Other politicians were mentioned by 3 percent. respondents; 15 percent responded that “there is no such thing, no one deserves it”; 48 percent respondents answered that they “have no idea, not interested, it’s hard to say”, and 3 percent respondents refused to answer.
The survey was conducted from November 28 to December 8, 2024 among a sample of 915 people, including 56.6%. CAPI method, 26.9 percent – CATI and 16.5 percent – CAWI.
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Source: wPolityce
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