Poles are divided on which issues should be raised in the presidential election campaign – Civic Platform voters want health care and taxes discussed; Law and Justice supporters are most concerned about the Smolensk air disaster.

The poll for Milliward Brown SMG/KRC found that those who want to vote for Civic Platform’s candidate Bronislaw Komorowski think that the campaign should focus on taxes and economy (49 percent) and relations with Russia (36 percent). These issues are less important for supporters of the Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, however, with only 32 percent interested in taxes and economy and 22 percent in Poland’s ties with Russia.  

Those who intend to vote for Kaczynski think that the presidential campaign should cover different subjects, such as the investigation on the cause of the presidential plane crash (32 percent), war on terrorism (26 percent), vetting of communists and support for the Institute of National Remembrance (16 percent).

Only 14 percent of Civic Platform’s supporters are interested, in the context of the election campaign, in the investigation into the causes of TU-154 crash, 18 percent on the international ‘war on terrorism’ and just 2 percent in digging into the communist past of public officials.

In general most Poles (59 percent) think that presidential candidates should reveal how they want to improve the Polish healthcare system – even though this is not in the power of the president of Poland, constitutionally - and what their plans concerning the Polish economy are (41 percent). The presidential campaign should also focus on the future of the European Union, 28 percent of respondents say, and on Polish-Russian relations (27 percent).

The issues that interest Polish voters in general the least are same-sex marriages (2 percent), vetting communists (7 percent), financial support for Polish Army (10 percent), access to in vitro (10 percent) and Poland’s relations with the US (14 percent).  

Four percent of respondents think that there should be no presidential campaign. (mg) 

Source: TVN24