Boosts to wages the most popular government policies: poll
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The government's policy to raise the salary of civil servants with bachelor degrees to Bt15,000, and the minimum wage to Bt300, was hailed as the Yingluck government's best, according to a poll.
A Suan Dusit Poll, conducted from July 9-13 and covering 1,449 respondents, showed that the income policy won the highest approval rating, at 38 per cent. The drug suppression policy followed with 19.5 per cent; the rice-pledging policy, 17 per cent; the first-car buyer scheme, 15 per cent; and the high-speed train project, 10 per cent.
However, when asked to rank five factors that pulled down the government’s popularity, nearly half, 47 per cent, put the rice-pledging scheme at the top. The others were corruption in state projects, 14.5 per cent; higher cost of living, 14 per cent; policies concerning insurgency in the South, 12.6 per cent; and the Bt2 trillion infrastructure scheme, which will boost public debt, 12 per cent.
In politics, conflicts worry people most, 35.6 per cent; followed by corruption (31.5 per cent), charter amendments (14 per cent), a possible coup (12 per cent) and frequent political change (7 per cent).
