More than 60 percent of Polish citizens do not want the US military base that could be set up in the country to be named Fort Trump after US President Donald Trump, a poll carried out by IBRIS company revealed.
WARSAW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 15th October, 2018) More than 60 percent of Polish citizens do not want the US military base that could be set up in the country to be named Fort Trump after US President Donald Trump, a poll carried out by IBRIS company revealed.
Trump announced that the United States was considering to establish its permanent military base in Poland during the visit of his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda to the White House in September. According to Trump, the Polish president offered to pay more than $2 billion to cover the costs and suggested that the base should be named Fort Trump.
According to the results of the poll published late on Sunday, a total of 61.5 percent of the respondents object to such a name and only 11.5 percent support it.
The poll also showed that 70 percent of those who do not want the base to be named after the US president come from the country's capital Warsaw and 63 percent of them have a degree.
The survey was conducted for the Rzeczpospolita newspaper among 1,100 respondents on October 5-6.
