On October 5, 2023, an informational meeting was held at MISO's headquarters on the past activities and research of the MISO Election Observatory. It was attended by journalists, community leaders, representatives of business, diplomacy, science and members of the MISO community.

MISO Founder and President Mateusz Komorowski, who opened the meeting, outlined a number of community initiatives, including a pro-turnout initiative, on parliamentary elections that are currently being implemented by MISO in cooperation with the Foundation's partners.

The floor was then taken by representatives of the OpinionWay Poland research studio, i.e. Marcin Hinz and Maria Perschke, who presented the latest conclusions of the analysis on the basis of a qualitative study (conducted by the studio on behalf of Election Observatory MISO), the main objective of which is to assess how voters really perceive media messages and how they affect their political attitudes and electoral decisions. The 3-month online community with a fixed group of respondents - voters of different parties, has been conducted from mid-July 2023. Throughout this period, a group of regular respondents - under the guidance of moderators - keep abreast of and comment on the most important events affecting the election campaign.

In the second part of the meeting, Dr. Anna Buchner presented the results of a sentiment barometer (carried out on behalf of EO MISO), which asked, among other things, about attitudes toward the government's actions regarding immigrants and the way it communicates the EU's intention to impose an obligation to relocate immigrants; attitudes toward the hiring of people affiliated with the ruling party in state-owned companies and the scale of their salaries, as well as who, according to Poles, is responsible for the lack of National Reconstruction Plan (KPO – Polish acronym) money for Poland and who should finance religious lessons held in state schools.

At the end of the meeting, the head of the MISO Analysis Center, Karol Reczkin, presented statistics on the participation of politicians in television programs and the distribution of airtime for individual election committees. As he stressed, in the analysis of the media monitoring data, the dominance of politicians from the ruling camp and the marginalization of opposition politicians were evident. Such a situation occurred not only in the so-called “public media,” but also in one of the commercial television stations.

The MISO Election Observatory was established in July 2023 by the International Institute of Civil Society and its think-tank - MISO Analysis Center to study the election campaign and the processes affecting free elections.

The Observatory's mission is to make the election campaign and elections in Poland transparent and accessible to all citizens.

The Observatory's activities focus primarily on: 

• conducting media monitoring;
• studying the impact of media coverage on political attitudes and electoral decisions;
• cooperating with the Election Accessibility Initiative;
• barometer of public sentiment around key topics in the political debate;
• educating and promoting good practices in the electoral process;
• conducting pro-turnout activities and encouraging active participation in the election campaign and elections.