Top BN leaders get thumbs down in Chinese daily poll

Updated 6 years ago · Published on 16 Oct 2017 4:18PM · 8 Comments

Nearly 40% of 15,000 Oriental Daily readers polled pick opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim as their choice of prime minister of Malaysia. – The Malaysian Insight pic, October 16, 2017.

MORE than 63% of readers of a Chinese daily do not want any of the most senior Umno leaders in the Najib administration to lead the country, even as the ruling coalition prepares for the next general election.

Offered a choice of Prime Minister Najib Razak and Cabinet ministers Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Khairy Jamaluddin and Hishammuddin Hussein as “the best Barisan Nasional leader to lead the country, 63.61%  of respondents picked “None of the above”, in Oriental Daily’s poll of 15,000 readers.

On the other end of the political spectrum, jailed Pakatan Harapan leader Anwar Ibrahim garnered the most votes for the best prime minister candidate among opposition leaders.

Almost all of the poll’s respondents hope for a change of government in the 14th general election which is expected to be called before August 2018.

BN and PH are the two main political coalitions vying for federal power in GE14. Islamist party PAS is leading a pact of smaller parties called Gagasan Sejahtera Rakyat but they were not featured in the survey.

The poll was published in today’s edition of the Oriental Daily and featured three questions of best BN candidate for PM, best PH candidate for PM, and hoped-for results in GE14.

Hishammuddin, who is defence minister, garnered the most votes at 19.69% for best BN candidate for PM.

Youth and sports minister Khairy is the second most popular choice at 12.15%, followed by prime minister Najib at 3.8%. Less than 1% voted for his deputy, Zahid, who scored 0.74%.

About 63.6% of readers chose “None of the above”.

In PH, the top three choices for PM are Anwar at 38.98%, followed by DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng (19.74%) and PKR deputy president Mohd Azmin Ali (10.42%).

Bersatu chairman Dr Mahathir Mohamad received 8.75% of votes, PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (6.26%) and Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin (1.5%). Only 14.36% ticked “None of the above”.

Many of the respondents also singled out PKR vice-presidents Rafizi Ramli and Nurul Izzah Anwar, who were not among the names listed in the poll, to be their choice of leader of Malaysia.

A 84.15% majority of readers hope for a change of government in the next general election, 6.47% are happy with the status quo, and 4.09% are rooting for BN to win with a two-thirds majority. A little over 5% have no opinion.  – October 16, 2017.

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  • The survey was done wrongly. Najib should the most preferred PM la. He is the most clever fella to take donation from Arab, preached moderation cleverly to foreigners, met US president Trump, has the most attractive wife, has the most clever step-son, and the most prominent anak angkat called Jho Low.

    Posted 6 years ago by Awang Top · Reply

    • Jho Low is Malaysia Top Chartered Islamic Financial Advisor of Malaysia. He can create money out from wealthy Arab's FART and makes money disappear from thin air.

      Posted 6 years ago by Chris Ng · Reply

  • Very bad news. The likes of PKR, Bersatu think since the Chinese will vote for them, their weak logic tells them it make sense to keep pandering the Malay votes just like UMNO and particularly PAS instead of coming up with a real challenge to both PAS and UMNO esp on religion

    Posted 6 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply

  • Really? To choose as PM, a sitting MB who ........ refused to declare his assets (his predecessor did) .... who refused to sign the MACC anti-corruption pledge when all other states, including opposition held, did ... who disavowed a document he personally signed regarding seats allocation for the Sarawak state elections .... who boycotted his fellow party Sarawak Amanah launch ..... who used his lapdogs to create trouble tor the Penang state government, his coalition partner ...... who cannot be trusted ..... who the @#$% wants him!!!




    Posted 6 years ago by Malaysian First · Reply

  • The entire ship sinks because of one hole.

    Posted 6 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply

  • This shows that MCA is already dead in any constituencies where Chinese voters account for 20% or more.

    Posted 6 years ago by Meng Kow Loh · Reply

  • What else can we say ? Let's do it !

    Posted 6 years ago by Ipman 123 · Reply

    • Precisely!!! Let's give~Inilah Kali Nya!, another chance & new lease of meaningful life#

      Posted 6 years ago by Musang Wang · Reply