{"id":17991,"date":"2026-08-01T19:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T19:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/polish-right-wing-lacks-a-leader-poll-shows\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T19:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T19:14:31","slug":"polish-right-wing-lacks-a-leader-poll-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/polish-right-wing-lacks-a-leader-poll-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish Right Wing Lacks a Leader, Poll Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent survey reveals that the Polish right wing currently lacks a dominant leader, with Karol Nawrocki and Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski topping the fragmented preferences of respondents.  <\/p>\n<h4>Poll Findings on Right-Wing Leadership<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;Who in your opinion is currently the actual leader of the right-wing camp in Poland?&#8221; was the exact question posed to respondents. Karol Nawrocki was indicated most frequently, by a total of 20.4 percent of respondents. Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski took second place, with the Law and Justice party leader receiving 19.8 percent of the votes. Right behind him was Mateusz Morawiecki\u2014the former prime minister who recently left the PiS parliamentary club and founded his own based on his Development Plus association\u2014who obtained 9.1 percent of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>S\u0142awomir Mentzen took fourth place, indicated by 4.5 percent of respondents. He was followed by Przemys\u0142aw Czarnek, the former education minister and PiS candidate for prime minister, chosen by 2.6 percent of study participants. Meanwhile, Krzysztof Bosak, the second Confederation co-chairman, obtained 1.7 percent of the votes.<\/p>\n<h4>Surprising Results and Majority View<\/h4>\n<p>This poll delivered surprising results, with the most popular answer showing that none of these politicians secured a dominant majority of votes. The largest share of respondents chose the option &#8220;the right wing has no leader today,&#8221; a view shared by 32.1 percent of study participants. Additionally, 9.8 percent of those polled chose &#8220;I don&#8217;t know\/hard to say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The study was conducted between July 24 and 25, 2026, using a mix-mode online and telephone methodology via computer-assisted standardized questionnaire interviews (CAWI\/CATI) on a representative group of 1,000 adult Poles.<\/p>\n<h4>Political Context and Trust Rankings<\/h4>\n<p>He became prime minister as a political single, without a backing that would allow him to survive factional fights in PiS. He relied on those he met before politics. When Morawiecki goes his own way now, they stand by his side again, writes Iwona Szpala on Wyborcza.pl.<\/p>\n<p>In an IBRiS trust poll published on July 29 conducted for Onet, Karol Nawrocki obtained 51.3 percent positive indications (&#8220;definitely trust&#8221; at 26.1 percent, &#8220;rather trust&#8221; at 25.2 percent). This is 3.5 percentage points less than the previous month. Meanwhile, a lack of trust in the head of state was declared by 41.6 percent of respondents (&#8220;definitely do not trust&#8221; at 31.9 percent, &#8220;rather do not trust&#8221; at 9.7 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz took second place, trusted by 42.3 percent of people (&#8220;definitely trust&#8221; at 16 percent, &#8220;rather trust&#8221; at 26.3 percent). This represents an increase of 7.4 percentage points compared to June, while 45 percent of respondents do not trust him (&#8220;definitely do not trust&#8221; at 29.9 percent, &#8220;rather do not trust&#8221; at 15.1 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Rados\u0142aw Sikorski took third place in the ranking, trusted by 41.5 percent of people (&#8220;definitely trust&#8221; at 22.3 percent, &#8220;rather trust&#8221; at 19.2 percent)\u2014down 1.1 percentage points from June. Conversely, 49.7 percent of respondents do not trust him (&#8220;definitely do not trust&#8221; at 34.7 percent, &#8220;rather do not trust&#8221; at 15 percent).<\/p>\n<p>The poll by the Institute for Market and Social Research (IBRiS) for Onet was carried out on July 24-25, 2026, using the computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) method on a research sample of 1,100 adult Poles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent survey reveals that the Polish right wing currently lacks a dominant leader, with Karol Nawrocki and Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski topping the fragmented preferences of respondents. Poll Findings on Right-Wing Leadership &#8220;Who in your opinion is currently the actual leader of the right-wing camp in Poland?&#8221; was the exact question posed to respondents. Karol Nawrocki [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}