A study by SW Research agency showed 67.6 percent respondents saying the government will not be able to tackle high inflation rates, while only 17.1 percent of those polled said they trusted government to deal with growing prices.
15.3 percent of respondents said they had no opinion on the issue.
Poles aged under 24, and those with university degree are the most critical of Polish government’s anti-inflation efforts, according to the SW Research's poll.
Inflation in Poland stood at 14.7 percent in year-on-year terms in April, the country’s statistics office said in a flash estimate on Friday.
In March, the prices of consumer goods and services in Poland were 16.1 percent higher than in the same month a year earlier, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency.
In February, Poland's consumer price index stood at 18.4 percent, Statistics Poland has reported.
Poland’s central bank chief, Adam Glapiński, has predicted that inflation will drop to the single digits by the end of 2023.
The Polish central bank said in its latest Inflation Report, released on March 10, that inflation would average at 11.9 percent this year, followed by 5.7 percent in 2024 and 3.5 percent in 2025.
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Source: IAR