President Nawrocki widens lead in Polish trust poll, Tusk distrust climbs to 49%

Nawrocki bounces back

President Karol Nawrocki remains Poland’s most trusted politician according to the June CBOS survey, reclaiming the 50%-plus mark he had slipped below in earlier months. 53 percent of respondents now trust the head of state, a 5-point gain from May, while the share expressing distrust fell 4 points to 34 percent. That puts Nawrocki 8 points clear of his closest rival, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, whose trust rating held steady at 45 percent. His distrust, however, rose 2 points to 29 percent.

After two months of weaker ratings, trust in the head of state increased in June.

In third place sits another deputy premier, Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, with 42 percent trust, down 2 points. Warsaw mayor and Civic Coalition deputy leader Rafał Trzaskowski follows with 40 percent, unchanged but facing a 4-point spike in distrust to 43 percent. Confederation’s Krzysztof Bosak rounds out the top five at 39 percent trust, up 1 point, with distrust easing to 32 percent.

Government figures under pressure

The poll brings more discomfort for the ruling camp. Prime Minister Donald Tusk held at 38 percent trust, yet distrust towards him rose 3 points to 49 percent. That leaves him with the widest trust-distrust gap among the top names. Speaker of the Sejm Włodzimierz Czarzasty saw the month’s steepest negative swing: his trust slipped 1 point to 31 percent while distrust jumped 5 points to 41 percent. Senate Speaker Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska also recorded a 4-point rise in distrust and a 2-point trust dip. Deputy premier Krzysztof Gawkowski, minister Marcin Kierwiński, and climate minister Paulina Hennig-Kloska all posted modest deteriorations, reinforcing a pattern of eroding ratings for government figures.

In June we saw a worsening of politicians’ ratings more often than improvement. These changes mainly concern government and ruling coalition representatives, though they are generally small and express themselves not so much in a decline of trust as in a rise of distrust.

Most distrusted politicians

At the opposite end of the spectrum, Law and Justice (PiS) leader Jarosław Kaczyński remains the figure most widely distrusted, cited by 57 percent of those polled. Confederation of the Polish Crown leader Grzegorz Braun follows at 55 percent. Two other PiS heavyweights generate distrust from at least half of respondents: former education minister Przemysław Czarnek at 51 percent and former prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki at 50 percent. Together with Prime Minister Tusk’s 49 percent, the list of highly distrusted politicians cuts across the government-opposition divide.

Survey details

The CBOS poll was conducted 11–21 June 2026 on a sample of 991 adults. Interviews were carried out using three modes: CAPI (66.4 percent), CATI (16.3 percent), and CAWI (17.3 percent). The institute noted that the ranking’s top positions have remained largely stable for several months, with President Nawrocki firmly entrenched as leader.