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Published on December 11, 2007

Noppadol Kannikar, director of Assumption University's Abac poll conducted the survey among 7,589 eligible voters across the country.

The survey shows 37.3 per cent of responsdents have decided who they will vote for, 35.1 per cent said they might change their mind, and 27.6 said they were undecided who they would vote for.

More than half of the voters who had decided which party they would vote for did not know the numbers that represented the constituency-based MPs of the party they would vote for. For instance, more than 56.1 per cent of voters who have decided to vote for the Democrats, did not know the numbers of the candidates.

Noppadol said that since the number of voters who were undecided was high, parties might easily emerge victorious just by maintaining their existing political support. If members of "the silent group" come out to exercise their voting rights, they could prove the results of many polls wrong. "The deciding factor of which party will win the election depends on this group," he said.

The People Power Party is expected to win the higest number of party-list MP seats, according to Abac poll. Of a total of 80 party-list seats, the PPP is expected to win 39 MPs, followed by the Democrats with 33 seats and the other parties sharing the other eight party-list seats.

Noppadol added that what was worrying was that parties might bore the silent group with their rhetoric so that these voters decide not to go to the poll.

The Nation