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Civic duty motivated Poles in euroelections
Civic duty was the main factor which motivated Poles to participate in June’s elections to the European Parliament.
di Staff
Almost fifty percent of Poles made such a claim during the first public opinion poll after the elections made by Eurobarometer.
The results published by the European Parliament show that forty four percent of Poles expressed such a view in comparison with forty seven percent in the whole European Union. Also the answer “I always vote” was chosen by one-third of Poles and forty percent of respondents in the EU. Every fifth European and every tenth Pole indicated that by taking part in the European elections they felt that had an influence on European politics.
Poland – next to Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Germany, Slovakia and Sweden – was in a group of countries with the voters’ turnout higher than during the previous elections to the European Parliament. Twenty four and a half percent of Poles turned out to vote in the 7 June elections.
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