At the beginning of this year the Territorial Army Act came into effect, creating a Territorial Army to be one component of Poland’s armed forces, an addition and complement to the country’s existing defensive potential.

Although the emergent Territorial Army has considerably more supporters (49%) than opponents (25%), it is nevertheless hard to say that it has been universally accepted.

Attitudes to the Territorial Army are highly politicised; its supporters are, for the most part, those respondents who identify with the government, the ruling party and the right wing of the political scene.

More on this subject in the CBOS report.