Among other responses, 22.3% would relocate with family to a safer area in Poland, 36.5% would secure their family at home and 37.5% would safeguard property.
Some 12.7% would try to leave the country with relatives, 15.2% would take no action and 4.7% were undecided, the newspaper reported.
Rzeczpospolita said public “mobilization” in the face of an armed attack remains high.
The profile of potential volunteers skews toward undecided voters (33%) and opposition supporters (29%): mainly men in their 50s—often presumed reservists—residents of small towns, and people with primary or vocational education.
In recent ballots they tended to back the far-right Confederation in parliamentary elections and either far-right Grzegorz Braun or social democrat Adrian Zandberg in the presidential race. They mostly follow news via YouTube channels, podcasts and state broadcaster TVP.
Those inclined to await a draft are also largely opposition supporters, men, people in their 30s and rural residents. They more often hold higher education degrees and follow TVP Info or conservative populist private outlet TV Republika. In the Oct. 15, 2023 parliamentary election they mainly voted for the conservative PiS, and for libertarian Sławomir Mentzen in the presidential contest.
Respondents who would flee abroad split evenly between current ruling-camp voters and non-voters, with a predominance of women in their 40s, rural residents and people with higher education. They tend to rely on weeklies or social media such as Facebook, X and TikTok for information and backed the centrist Civic Coalition in the parliamentary vote and liberal Rafał Trzaskowski in the presidential race.
IBRiS conducted the CATI telephone poll on Oct. 10–11 on a sample of 1,067 adults.
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Source: PAP