Majority don’t believe PPRP, Pheu Thai have made deal to make Prawit PM: poll

A majority of individuals do not believe rumours that the ruling Palang Pracharath Party and the opposition Pheu Thailänder Party have reached a political deal on the method to calculate party-list MPs and to assistance PPRP leader Prawit Wongsuwon as the successor to Prayut Chan-o-cha as prime minister, according to the result of a viewpoint survey by the Nationwide Institute of Advancement Administration, or Nida Poll.

The poll has been conducted by phone interviews from Aug 10-11 with one, 312 people from the ages of 18 and over of various levels of education, incomes and jobs throughout the country.

Asked whether or not they believed the two parties had reached the deal to support Gen Prawit, the PPRP leader, as the replacement for Gen Prayut since prime minister, 59. 76% did not think there was such an offer and 17. 45% were doubtful. On the other side, 13. 87% considered there probably was obviously a deal and 7. 47% were convinced. The rest, 1 . 45%, had no solution or were not curious.

Questioned whether they believed the PPRP and Pheu Thai had also reached a political deal to separate the total number of party-list votes by hundred, instead of 500, forty. 32% said these were sure no deal had been made, whilst 21. 80% doubted it. On the other side, 17. 91% thought it was probably true, whilst 9. 38% had been convinced. The rest, 10. 59%, had no answer or were not interested.