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Seventy percent of
people unhappy with Ma: survey
BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER: A DPP spokesperson
said that with recent polls showing roughly the same results, disappointment
with Ma now transcends the political divide
By Lee Hsin-fang / Staff Reporter
Taiwan Solidarity Union members
hold a mock practice presidential inauguration in Greater Taichung yesterday.
Their bandanas read ¡§Recall the president.¡¨
Photo: Chang Hsuan-che, Taipei Times
Dissatisfaction with President Ma Ying-jeou
(°¨^¤E) has risen to 70.2 percent, and only 25 percent of interviewees are
satisfied with his performance, according to a poll released by the Democratic
Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday.
The poll, conducted by the DPP amid the opposition¡¦s plans to hold mass
demonstrations tomorrow and Sunday against rising electricity, fuel and retail
prices, showed 60.6 of the respondents said they were in favor of the protests
to express their dissatisfaction with the administration. Thirty-two percent of
respondents said they were against the protests.
The survey found that 65 percent of respondents said they had no confidence in
the next four years under Ma, while 30.6 percent said they still have faith in
Ma.
More than two-thirds of the respondents, 66.7 percent, said they lacked
confidence in the nation¡¦s economic performance over the next four years and
only 29.9 percent said they still remained optimistic, the poll showed.
A comparison between the latest survey with one the DPP conducted on May 2 shows
the number of dissatisfied people has risen from 65.4 percent to 70.2 percent,
an increase of 4.6 percentage points. Ma¡¦s approval rating has dipped from 25.8
percent in the May 2 survey to 25 percent.
The latest poll showed 86.1 percent of interviewees were pessimistic that the
wealth gap would be closed over the next four years, with only 10.5 percent
hopeful of the gap closing.
When asked about their expectations over the next four years, 58.7 percent of
respondents thought life would get worse, while 25.9 percent felt it would
improve and 7.8 percent felt it would be the same.
The survey showed a majority of people are pessimistic about their quality of
life over the next four years, the DPP said.
Saying the poll results were about the same as surveys conducted by TV stations,
newspapers and other organizations, DPP spokesperson Lin Chun-hsien (ªL«T¾Ë) said
the polls demonstrated that disappointment with the Ma administration has grown
beyond the pan-green and pan-blue divide.
The survey was conducted on Monday and Tuesday night, targeting people who were
20 and older. A total of 1,334 valid samples were collected, with a margin of
error of plus or minus 2.73 percentage points.
Translated by Jake Chung, staff writer
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