ABAC poll: More people support charter revision

BANGKOK, 15 January 2012 (NNT) – ABAC poll shows most people agree with constitutional amendment proposals on some articles as 53.8 per cent of the respondents said in that way. The northeastern people form the majority of supporters while locals in the South are in disagreement.

The Research Office at Assumption University, or ABAC Poll, conducted the survey among people aged over 18 in 28 provinces regarding the 2007 constitution, their knowledge about the charter, and their opinions toward the revision which remains controversial.

The poll result shows that nearly 60 percent of the respondents never read the current constitution while well above one third, or 38.7 percent, have read some parts. However, more people have expressed agreements with charter revision. The percentage stood at 53.8, rising from 43.7 percent from the survey conducted in September 2011. They reason that certain articles should be revised but must adhere to the majority’s best interests, not solely for the sake of a group of people.

According to the poll, more than half of respondents in the Northeast and the North were in support of the move, with 68.4 and 55.3 percent respectively. In contrast, a majority of people in the South, 79.4%, disagreed with the move.

Meanwhile, 69.8 percent of the people polled said that a Constitutional Drafting Assembly should be selected by Thai people but 30.2 percent did not share the same view.

-- NNT 2012-01-15

Let me get that straight: 1.7% of all people interviewed have actually read the constitution (I don't know which one, the present or the 1997 version), but 53.8 % are in favor of an amendment?

Makes it abundantly clear that most people still fall for propaganda and very very few trust their own judgment. How will Democracy ever progress when most people have no clue what this all is about?

Let me get that straight: 1.7% of all people interviewed have actually read the constitution (I don't know which one, the present or the 1997 version), but 53.8 % are in favor of an amendment?

Makes it abundantly clear that most people still fall for propaganda and very very few trust their own judgment. How will Democracy ever progress when most people have no clue what this all is about?

Let me get that straight: 1.7% of all people interviewed have actually read the constitution (I don't know which one, the present or the 1997 version), but 53.8 % are in favor of an amendment?

Makes it abundantly clear that most people still fall for propaganda and very very few trust their own judgment. How will Democracy ever progress when most people have no clue what this all is about?

Care to explain where you got your 1.7% figure from? I've read the article three times now and still find '38.7% have read some parts'.

Although I would be surprised if even 1.7% have read the whole constitution, let alone understood it, including most of the politicians. Which is quite natural, I mean who (except americans of course) has read the whole constitution of his/her country.

Magna Carta ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta )

We read this when I was at school,. I do admit it was a U.K. Grammar School and it was in the 1950's though.

Incidentally Samuel Pepys was one of our more illustrious Old Boys

Sadly in my view our most infamous Old Boy was Oliver Cromwell the famed Regicide.

Then of course there was me too .

Edited January 15, 201214 yr by siampolee

Care to explain where you got your 1.7% figure from? I've read the article three times now and still find '38.7% have read some parts'.

Although I would be surprised if even 1.7% have read the whole constitution, let alone understood it, including most of the politicians. Which is quite natural, I mean who (except americans of course) has read the whole constitution of his/her country.

Here it is:

[...] nearly 60 percent of the respondents never read the current constitution while well above one third, or 38.7 percent, have read some parts.

Hope this helps...

Care to explain where you got your 1.7% figure from? I've read the article three times now and still find '38.7% have read some parts'.

Although I would be surprised if even 1.7% have read the whole constitution, let alone understood it, including most of the politicians. Which is quite natural, I mean who (except americans of course) has read the whole constitution of his/her country.

Here it is:

[...] nearly 60 percent of the respondents never read the current constitution while well above one third, or 38.7 percent, have read some parts.

Hope this helps...

That would be 1.3% then.

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Edited January 15, 201214 yr by whybother