Public split over party-list MPs: poll
The public is divided over whether to scrap party-list candi?dates elected via proportional rep?resentation, according to a poll.
Abac Poll Research Centre found nearly 40 per cent of people who undertook a recent poll agreed with scrapping party lists, while 33 per cent disagreed and 27 per cent had no comment.Abac Poll director Dr Noppadon Kannika believed the proportion against scrapping the lists was sig?nificant as it suggested possible woes ahead for the Constitution Drafting Committee when the new charter is put to a referendum later this year. Meanwhile, almost 75 per cent of respondents believed prime ministers must be elected. Just 19 per cent said this was not necessary. A significant 82 per cent agreed also with limiting prime ministers to two terms or eight years, while 16 disagreed. Moves to make it easier to hold no-confidence debates were backed by 69 per cent but opposed by 13.5 per cent. More than 81 per cent said sen?ators were necessary and 29 per cent believed they should be appointed. But 52 per cent still wanted an elected upper house. Prime ministers and Cabinet members should resign over seri?ous allegations of corruption, according to 61 per cent, but 23 per cent did not see this as necessary. The poll was conducted earlier this month as the drafting com?mittee discussed scrapping party lists. It surveyed 4,736 respondents in 23 provinces. The Nation
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