BANGKOK, 18 March 2011 (NNT) – Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has proved more popular in the current censure debate than the opposition’s team leader Mingkwan Saengsuwan, according to a recent survey by Assumption University Research Center (ABAC Poll).
ABAC Poll conducted the survey with 948 respondents in 17 provinces across the country regarding the Prime Minister’s popularity after three days of the no-confidence debate.
The poll showed that more than half of the respondents or 54% still kept faith with the incumbent prime minister preferring him to take helm of the kingdom while only 30.9% gave support to the opposition’s debate team leader Mingkwan from Pheu Thai Party.
In terms of overall performances in the debate of Prime Minister Abhisit and Mr Mingkwan, 53.5% of the respondents viewed that Prime Minister Abhisit could do better than Mr Mingkwan while 30.6% did not think so.
The prime minister also gained higher votes for his attention to people’s problems at 53.5%. Moreover, the majority, or 52.2%, of the respondents deemed the information supplied by the prime minister more reliable than that of the opposition debater.
