Majority favour judges over red shirts
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Most people disagree with the red shirts' efforts to force nine Constitutional Court judges to resign, an opinion survey has found.
The survey by Nida found that 61.6 per cent of respondents disagreed with the red shirts and Pheu Thai Party who are putting pressure on the Constitutional Court, while 24.9 per cent had no comment. The survey was conducted among 1,254 people from all regions.
Asked which branch of government they had most confidence in, 44.2 per cent cited the judiciary, while 20.8 per cent cited the administration and 10.77 per cent chose legislative branch. Of the total 10.61 per cent chose no branch, while 13.48 per cent said they were not sure.
Up to 61.8 per cent of the respondents said they were happy with the Constitutional Court, 15.63 per cent said they were very happy and 14.75 per cent said they were unhappy.
Of the respondents, 61.8 per cent said there should be laws to prohibit violations against the courts, while 18.50 per cent disagreed and remaining 19.62 per cent had no comment.
