Criticism of opinion polls

The conservative daily Rzeczpospolita criticises its left-liberal rival the Gazeta Wyborcza, which has published opinion polls on several issues: "According to one survey the majority of Poles want the introduction of fixed quotas for women in parliament. This result is not particularly surprising when you compare it with opinion polls on the parliament among Poles. For years the situation has been the same here: people have just as low an opinion of the Sejm [the Polish parliament] as they do of the government, the president and the prime minister. The average Pole takes a dim view of the way it works and doesn't trust it. … Support for the idea of reserving half of the seats in the Sejm for women … is more a sign that people question the suitability of women for public life than that feminist agendas are coming to the fore."

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