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POLLS APART: Fijileaks sounds caution with FLP about Tebbutt Poll;  During 2014 election we were told that SODELPA will win hands down!

12/2/2017

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The confounding Tebbutt Poll

An overall approval rating of 78% for Prime Minister Bainimarama in a poll conducted last week by Tebbutt, contrasts sharply with recent snap polls conducted by the social media which show the FF Party doing pretty badly.

In one such poll, out of 800 respondents, 62% believed SODELPA would win the next elections and just 37% thought FF would win.

Social media and radio talk-back show feedbacks from the grassroots show growing disillusionment with the FF government. Its utter failure to provide quick and effective rehabilitation relief to victims of Cyclone Winston despite all the promises, its ineffective approach to problems facing the sugar industry and cane farmers in particular, the escalating cost of living and government’s refusal to give workers a just and living wage in line with inflation- have all made it very unpopular with the people.

One wonders how much significance should be given to a national poll based on just 1001 people conducted through the telephone. In Fiji, there is a remarkable difference in opinion between people: in the rural and urban areas, the educated and elite vs the poor and ordinary worker etc etc. The Fiji Times report on the results of the poll does not indicate what percentage of those polled were from the rural sector or different social classes.

Certainly, it is difficult to believe that a prime minister who spends three-quarters of his time trotting the globe overseas and the rest cutting ribbons and distributing hand outs, can get a 78% rating as doing a good job.

To put things in the proper perspective: the Tebbutt-Times poll on the popularity ratings of our politicians can be likened to making some sense out of nonsense, if you read things in the reverse. Source: FLP website

5 Comments
Eager voter Khaiyum hater.
13/2/2017 05:38:05 am

If Banimarama wants a second term as Prime minister than he needs to get rid of Fiji's most hated human being Khaiyum.
Everyone will support Banimarama....without Khaiyum.
If Khaiyum stays than the FFP will lose the elections.
Remember the polls say PM has 78% approval ratings, not Khaiyum.
So message to PM....keep Khaiyum lose elections, dump Khaiyum and stay in power for a looong time.

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Bahuki
15/2/2017 03:11:30 am

It would be interesting to see how Frankie runs a second term if he wins without Khaiyum since he's been running the show most of the time.

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Rajend Naidu
15/2/2017 10:02:10 pm

Editor,
Winning An Election Against All Odds
We learn from The NYT article ' Run Off Likely in Jakarta Elections Seen as Test of Tolerance for Indonesia' ( 15/2 ) that the horrendously maligned Christian governor of the capital of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim majority nation,has been fighting for his political life in an election campaign charged with religious and ethnic undertones.
Mr Basuki, popularly known as Alok, who is ethnic Chinese has been hobbled by a criminal trial for blasphemy against Islam. Basuki and his supporters say the court case which was preceded by 3 mass protest by Islamists demanding that he be persecuted or even lynched, was orchestrated by political opponents to sabotage his reelection.
But notwithstanding that Alok as governor of Jakarta has no lack of support among Muslims who make up the majority of voters in Jakarta. One supporter said Alok was " good, clean and honest ".
Jeffrey A Winters, a professor of politics at Northwestern University who is a longtime observer of Indonesian affairs said, " one has to admit Alok did remarkably well considering the type of campaign that was mounted against him".
That must also read as a statement for secularism in Indonesia. The mostly Muslim voters did not buy into the racial and religiously slurs directed by the Mullahs and their mob at the Christian governor and voted for him, even though he is up against two Muslims .
Others in political leadership can draw inspiration from Alok's example: not to succumb to dirty politics. Fight on!
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

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Chiku
15/2/2017 10:15:56 pm

Yeah, and how many of our mob in political leadership can be described as " good, clean and honest" ?
Murder minister Praveen Bala? Ashneel Mortein Sudhakar ? Frank The Puppet Prime Minister Bainimarama? Aiyaz The Minister for Everything Khaiyum? Sitiveni The Father of Fiji Coups Rabuka? ...

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OneMore
16/2/2017 01:28:11 pm

Not forgetting the 'daaku' on the sidelines...

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