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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's popularity rating suffered hugely in the last one year in continuation of last year's popularity curve. Last year, over half the respondents (53 percent) said they are satisfied with her performance. This year, only 39.4 percent said so. When she became prime minister three years ago, her approval rating was as high as 81 percent. So in three years, this is a huge decline in popularity. The number of people who are dissatisfied with her is also much higher this year (42.1 percent) than last year (27 percent).
Khaleda's popularity static Leader of the opposition Khaleda Zia however has maintained a static popularity rating. Last year, 30 percent respondents said they are happy with her performance. This year the figure is similar at 30.3 percent. However, she has been able to reduce the negative sentiment of the respondents from 35 percent last year to 30.6 percent this year.
AL, BNP back to their core vote bank Last year, when we asked people which party they would vote for if there is an election tomorrow, it was found that AL was the choice of majority of the respondents (39 percent) and it was far ahead of the BNP (22 percent). This time it was found that AL's chance of winning the election remains static at 39.7 percent. However BNP has dramatically regained its position to close the gap with the AL as 36.8 percent voters said they would vote for BNP. Jatiya Party has also done better with 5.8 percent voting for it from last year's 4 percent. Jamaat remained almost static wth 2.1 percent against last year's 2 percent. If the alliances are taken into consideration, then the AL-Jaatiya Party alliance would bag 42.6 percent votes while BNP-Jamaat would bag 38.9 percent votes.
People want caretaker government system A large 73.9 percent people said they do not support cancellation of the caretaker government system and a similarly large number of the respondents think it is not possible to hold free and fair elections without a caretaker government.
Success and weak points of the government The respondents identified trial of war criminals as the top success point with a 29.7 percent rating. Fertiliser supply came in second place with a 25 percent vote followed by power generation (19 percent) and education (16.9 percent). On the other hand, most respondents identified corruption (29.9 percent) as the weakest point followed by share market (29.4 percent) and law and order situation (28.2 percent).
AL, BNP's acceptance rating People who think that AL's public acceptance as a party has gone down outnumber those who think otherwise. But the case is quite opposite in case of the BNP. 53 percent of the respondents feel that AL's public acceptance has decreased while only 28.5 percent it has increased. In case of the BNP, 44.3 percent think its public acceptance has gone up while 28.2 percent think it has decreased.
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