A majority of people believe that, with sincerity to one another, the eight parties forming a government will succeed in their push for Pita Limjaroenrat, the Move Forward Party leader, to be prime minister, according to an opinion survey by the National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll.
The poll was carried out on July 5-7 by telephone interviews with 1,310 people aged 18 and over of various levels of education, occupations and incomes throughout the country to compile their opinions about sincerity of the Move Forward, Pheu Thai and six other smaller parties in forming a government and pushing for Mr Pita to take the prime minister’s post.
Asked about their satisfaction with Wan Muhamad Noor Matha of the Prachachart Party having been selected speaker of the House of Representatives, 45.50% were fairly satisfied; 37.40% highly satisfied; 9.54% not quite satisfied; 6.34% totally not satisfied; and 1.22% had no answer or were not interested.
Asked which between Move Forward and Pheu Thai parties would benefit more from Wan Muhamad Noor Matha’s being made House speaker, 58.93% said the two parties would equally benefit from it; 23.13% pointed to Pheu Thai; 7.94% pointed to Move Forward; 6.95% said neither of them would benefit from it, and 3.05% had no answer or were not interested.
Asked whether they believed the eight parties are sincere in joining hands to form a government, a majority or 55.27% said “yes” and the other side, 43.97%, said “no”. The rest, 0.76%, had no answer or not interested.
A majority, 64.80%, said they believed the eight parties would succeed in pushing for Mr Pita to be prime minister while 34.28% said otherwise. The rest, 0.92%, had no answer or were not interested.