Among the leading foreign politicians in Slovakia, the largest proportion of respondents trust Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Czech President Petr Pavel the most, according to a current survey conducted by DennikN, the results of which were published on the website of the Bratislava newspaper.

According to a survey carried out in September by the Ipsos polling agency, the proportion of those who gave the answers "I definitely trust him" or "I rather trust him" to the names of the leading politicians included in the survey was the highest for Viktor Orbán and Petr Pavel, for both politicians It accounted for 33 percent.

The survey placed Donald Trump in third place on the list: 27 percent of those surveyed said that they strongly or rather trusted the American presidential candidate. Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron are in a tie for fourth and fifth place on the list, with a trust index of 25 percent of the respondents.

In the sixth and seventh places, also in a tie, are the names of the American vice-president and presidential candidate Kamala Harris, and Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has the lowest trust index - 5 percent - of the foreign leaders given as a possibility in the public opinion poll.

On the contrary, in his case, the proportion of those who claimed that they did not know him was the highest: 51 percent of the respondents gave this answer.

The proportion of those who answered "I don't know" was relatively high even in the case of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Kamala Harris, 33 percent of the respondents said this about the former, and 25 percent about the latter.

In the case of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the largest proportion of those participating in the survey gave the answer "I definitely do not trust him", 46 percent of the respondents said this in the case of both politicians.

MTI

Cover photo: Illustration / In the photo published by the Prime Minister's Press Office, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (j) receives Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (b) in front of the Parliament, on Lajos Kossuth Square on January 16, 2024.
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