President more popular than Yingluck and Abhisit: poll

Survey results released on the eve of US President Barack Obama's arrival reveal that Thais have more faith in the American leader than in Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra or her predecessor.

If they could choose between Obama, Yingluck and Abhisit, about 43 per cent of survey respondents said they had faith in Obama as the best leader, while about one-third picked Yingluck and 24 per cent threw their support behind Abhisit, said the director of Assumption University's Abac Poll, Noppadon Kannika. The survey questioned 2,115 respondents aged 18 and over in seven provinces between Monday and Friday, he said.

On Obama's role in promoting democracy in Thailand, 85.4 per cent of respondents said they wanted him to support preserving the Constitutional monarchy. About 70 per cent wanted him to address the crisis of faith in Thai politicians, and over 65 per cent said they wanted Obama to help improve Thai politicians' morality. About the same number of people wanted the president to help solve the problem of vote-buying, while over half of respondents said they wanted the rights and duties of Thai citizens be seen as important to the Thai government.

Asked to identify problems they would like Obama to help solve, over 85 per cent of respondents cited drugs and transnational crime, according to the poll.

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