A December survey by United Surveys for IBRiS shows that 24.7 % of Poles want Poland to exit the EU, while 47 % oppose it.
Nearly a Quarter of Poles Support EU Exit
In a December poll by United Surveys for IBRiS involving 1,000 respondents, 48.6 % said “definitely no” and 17.1 % said “rather no” when asked whether Poland should start an exit procedure. Together, 65.7 % opposed a departure. Conversely, 24.7 % voted for exiting, with 11.6 % “definitely yes” and 13.1 % “rather yes”. The remaining 9.6 % were undecided.
Marcin Duma, president of IBRiS, noted that just a few decades ago, a 2003 accession referendum saw over 77 % of voters in favour of EU entry, a level that stayed between 80‑90 % in subsequent years, while exit proponents comprised only a few percent of the population. Two decades later, public sentiment has shifted significantly.
Exit Favored More by PiS Voters than Confederation
The survey found that support for leaving the European Union is strongest among supporters of the ruling Law and Justice party, with 47 % favoring exit and only 33 % voting “definitely no.” Support also appears among Confederation voters, with 41 % backing an exit, though they are less likely than PiS voters to answer “definitely yes” and the fewest among all groups to strongly oppose leaving the EU.
Voters in the governing coalition’s parties—those belonging to the Civic Coalition and the New Left—are overwhelmingly in favour of remaining in the EU, with over 80 % of respondents in those groups supporting continued membership. No respondents in those electorates answered “definitely yes” for exit, and 0 % of the Civic Coalition and New Left electorate voted “definitely yes” for leaving the union.
Earlier Survey
Earlier this month, a large Eurobazooka poll commissioned by the French magazine Le Grand Continent assessed support for the EU across several member states, including Germany, France, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Croatia.
In that poll, 69 % of Polish respondents wanted to remain in the EU, while 25 % were against it. The New Left pointed out that Polish support for the EU has fallen year after year. In 2022, 92 % of respondents favoured staying, dropping to 77 % two years later.
