rooster59 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Over 68,000 people respond to PM’s questions By The Nation File photo: Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha asked the questions during his weekly TV programme on Friday a few weeks ago, stirring up public debate on whether this was to gauge public opinion on his popularity ahead of the coming election. Around 66,800 people have expressed their views on the Prime Minister’s four questions in regard to election prospects. The Interior Ministry has given updates on public responses to the premier’s questions since Monday. It has collected the responses from its Damrongtham centres nationwide. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha asked the questions during his weekly TV programme on Friday a few weeks ago, stirring up public debate on whether this was to gauge public opinion on his popularity ahead of the coming election. He asked: # Do you think the next election will give Thailand a government with good governance? # If that is not the case, what will you do? # Elections are an integral part of democracy but are elections without regard for the country’s future right or wrong? # Do you think bad politicians should be given the chance to return to politics – and if conflict re-emerges, who will solve it and by what means? Despite heavy debate among concerned parties, including several veteran politicians, the turn-out of people providing responses was quite low on the first day. Prayut said in response to the low turn-out that he did not have high expectations in regard to his four questions – he simply wanted to sound out people’s thoughts. “I do not expect everyone to answer the questions. It’s not a big deal. I just want to hear what people say,” Prayut said. According to the ministry, Khon Kaen in the Northeast has seen the highest number of people responding, with around 7,400 replying to the premier’s questions. The lowest has been Samut Sakhon province, with only 35 people having given answers. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/breakingnews/30318323 -- © Copyright The Nation 2017-06-17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taichiplanet Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 about 1% response based on population. Just saying, don't shoot the messenger! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 21 minutes ago, rooster59 said: Over 68,000 people respond to PM’s questions 22 minutes ago, rooster59 said: Around 66,800 people have expressed their views on the Prime Minister’s four questions in regard to election prospects. Erm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 (edited) 50 minutes ago, rooster59 said: “I do not expect everyone to answer the questions. It’s not a big deal. I just want to hear what people say,” Prayut said. Experience of the past, especially press conferences, suggests that is not the case. Edited June 17, 2017 by Bluespunk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raymonddiaz Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Monday 8 people showed up and abracadabra Friday there was 68.000 people. Oh my god! I believe you dear leader. You know how much we love you ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smarter Than You Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Could the numbers have been inflated to help- prop up the PM's fragile ego? It seems like its been an eternity since we had one of those 97% popularity polls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatOngo Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Here's your patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klauskunkel Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Here is an idea if you want a larger, positive turnout: pay them 500 baht to answer the questions correctly (it's an old election trick) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamgeorgeallen Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 he is testing the waters. either to suspend elections for the foreseeable future or running them but keeping yingluck and other 'undesirable' politicians out of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 I did not expect he has such a huge number of dependent family members. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chainarong Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Question 2 is the key , what will U do , well maybe riot on the street your lordship................................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srikcir Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 8 hours ago, rooster59 said: According to the ministry, Khon Kaen in the Northeast has seen the highest number of people responding, with around 7,400 replying to the premier’s questions. The lowest has been Samut Sakhon province, with only 35 people having given answers. So where does 68,000 people come from? There are 76 provinces. The turnout for the 19 provinces in the Northeast was 7,400 or 400 average per province as a high. Applied against the remaining 56 provinces (deducting for Samut Sakhon) gives 22,400 people which is very overstated if one assumes that the majority Muslim population in southern Thailand would not bother to answer. If there has been truly 68,000 people, might be coming from military bases or simply a made up count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Loh Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 2 hours ago, klauskunkel said: Here is an idea if you want a larger, positive turnout: pay them 500 baht to answer the questions correctly (it's an old election trick) Why bother with monetary bribe when the minister of propaganda can simple churn out fake numbers like they do for his popularity and happiness poll. Obviously the 68,000 is fake. Any number larger than this will be too obvious to be credible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realenglish1 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Ok I was thinking there would be a result of the question here Guess they have not had time to make up the stuff yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thechook Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 So the other 99% of the population thought what a load of rubbish. Um better put the election back a few more years, you will be wiped off the planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candide Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 11 hours ago, williamgeorgeallen said: he is testing the waters. either to suspend elections for the foreseeable future or running them but keeping yingluck and other 'undesirable' politicians out of them. Guess what the answer was, according to the Junta (see the "other" newspaper)? People don't think elections are required now, elections will not give Thailand a government with good governance, and they want Prayuth to be the next PM. Anyone surprised? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Get Real Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Let´s see how many we´re up in at the end of month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamgeorgeallen Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 29 minutes ago, candide said: Guess what the answer was, according to the Junta (see the "other" newspaper)? People don't think elections are required now, elections will not give Thailand a government with good governance, and they want Prayuth to be the next PM. Anyone surprised? ha they really got these results from the 1% who answered? the army now has control over of any future elections and who runs in them. they also have power to take back control at any time so why bother with asking these questions? game over army you won. what am i missing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dexlowe Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Silly farang no good math. Me tink 68,000 be 0.1% of Thai, not 1%. Me lub Papa Prayu velly big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thechook Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Of the 1% turnout, what was the % in favour, was it 0.25% - 0.75% ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maoro2013 Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 23 hours ago, taichiplanet said: about 1% response based on population. Just saying, don't shoot the messenger! Yes, not very representative. I would like to see some of the responses though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robblok Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Why is everyone talking about 1% ?... I think its less 0,1% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whaleboneman Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 26 minutes ago, robblok said: Why is everyone talking about 1% ?... I think its less 0,1% Because people tend to believe what they read without thinking too much about it. I once got an email that claimed we were in for a very rare treat as there would be 5 Saturday nights this month and that hadn't happened in many years. So many people forward garbage like that without thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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