PUBLISHED: 26 Jan 2025 at 08: 17
According to a study conducted by the National Institute of Development Administration, the administration’s proposed casino-entertainment advanced and its strategy to legalize online gambling are opposed by a large majority of people.
Asked for their thoughts on the development of integrated entertainment complexes complete with a casino, 59.19 % of respondents said they opposed both the complex and casino, 28.93 % supported both, 8.63 % supported the complex but without a casino, 1.68 % had no comment and 1.60 % supported a casino only.  ,
Asked if they agreed with the government’s push to legalise online gambling, 58.32 % said they strongly disagreed, 19.92 % strongly agreed, 11.45 % somewhat agreed and 10.31 % somewhat disagreed.  ,  ,
The responses to the common elections on the legalization of online gambling varied as follows:
51.07 % said they disagreed with holding elections for both the casino-entertainment complex and virtual gambling legalisation ,
37.86 % agreed with holding referendums for both schemes ,  ,
5.11 approved of holding a referendum on the only casino-entertainment difficult job.
3.8 % of people supported holding a referendum to legalize online gambling.
1.99 % had no comment
0.08 % did not answer
The Nida Poll was conducted by phone conversations on Jan 20-21 with 1, 310 individuals aged over 18 of several levels of education, wages and activities throughout the country.