Poll shows people ready to wait for 'suitable state'

Almost 70 per cent said the election should be held when the country is in a suitable context while the other 30 per cent said it should be held as planned in the road map, according to results of the survey released Saturday.
Most respondents also said they believed that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, by posing his four political questions to voters, seemed to signal to the public that the country was stable in the run-up to the upcoming election.
The poll, entitled “The PM’s four questions to a road map to election”, surveyed 1,227 people in all regions of the country.
Of the respondents, 30 per cent said they thought Prayut wanted to signal on national security issues prior to the election. Another 29 per cent said he appeared to imply that the election might not be held according to the road map if the country were not ready for it.
More than 26 per cent thought that the PM wanted to say there would be no election if there was no morality in the political arena while almost 14 per cent said he wanted to ask politicians whether they had reformed their parties and themselves.
Around 61 per cent “very slightly” trust that the current constitution, the so-called “anti-graft charter”, would make the next election free from fraud and pave the way for a government that would provide good governance. Almost 39 per cent, on the other hand, saw high potential in the current charter.
Asked what they were worried about regarding the election, 40 per cent said they were concerned about security issues. Almost 39 per cent said that they worried election canvassers might use unfair means to gain votes for their parties and more than 20 per cent were concerned that the election would not encourage fresh faces to enter politics.