The find­ings of an opin­ion sur­vey con­duct­ed by NAC­TA over the last week show the Gov­ern­ment's ap­proval rat­ing con­tin­u­ing to slip over the last few months, while Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad- Bisses­sar and Min­is­ters Jack Warn­er, Glenn Ra­mad­hars­ingh, Vas­ant Bharath, and Roodal are still held in high re­gards by the pop­u­la­tion.The find­ings of the poll are ob­tained from in­ter­views with 404 re­spon­dents (45 per cent In­di­ans, 36 per cent Africans, 18 per cent Mixed, and one per cent Oth­ers) re­flect­ing the de­mo­graph­ics of the pop­u­la­tion. The poll, con­duct­ed over the last week by Vish­nu Bis­ram, has a five per cent mar­gin of er­ror.

Asked if they are sat­is­fied with the per­for­mance of the gov­ern­ment, 38 per cent said yes (down three per cent from Feb­ru­ary) with 45 per cent say­ing no (up by two per cent) and 17 per cent of­fer­ing no re­sponse.Many gov­ern­ment sup­port­ers say they were dis­ap­point­ed with un­forced er­rors com­mit­ted by the gov­ern­ment and its fail­ure to sup­port Nizam Mo­hammed over his con­tro­ver­sial eth­ic im­bal­ance state­ment.

Asked if they ap­proved of Per­sad-Bisses­sar's per­for­mance as Prime Min­is­ter, 59 per cent said yes with 32 per cent dis­ap­prov­ing and nine per cent of­fer­ing no opin­ion. Asked if they ap­prove of Dr Kei­th Row­ley's per­for­mance as Op­po­si­tion Leader, 46 per cent said yes with 38 per cent dis­ap­prov­ing and 16 per cent say­ing they were not sure. Op­po­si­tion sup­port­ers ap­peared pleased with their par­ty, with 78 per cent ap­prov­ing of the han­dling and out­come of the par­ty's in­ter­nal elec­tions held last month.

Asked which min­is­ter im­pressed the most with per­for­mance, most re­spon­dents chose Jack Warn­er of Works and Trans­port Min­istry who led with 35 per cent, fol­lowed by Glenn Ra­mad­hars­ingh of Peo­ples Min­istry, with 24 per cent, Vas­ant Bharath of Agri­cul­ture with 17 per cent, and Roodal Mooni­lal of Hous­ing with 12 per cent.

Oth­er min­is­ters had very poor scores, with re­spon­dents say­ing the Prime Min­is­ter need­ed to reshuf­fle her cab­i­net and drop some of the min­is­ters.Asked if they agreed with for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Bas­deo Pan­day that the coun­try had been be­trayed by its lead­ers, on­ly 27 per cent said yes, most­ly sup­port­ers of the UNC.Asked if they sup­port­ed calls for Pres­i­dent Max Richards to re­sign or be re­called from of­fice, on­ly 23 per cent said yes.Asked if they agreed with fired PSC chair Nizam Mo­hammed that sec­tions of the me­dia had a racist agen­da to hound him out of of­fice, on­ly 21 per cent said yes with most­ly In­di­ans back­ing him.

rat­ings

Ap­proval Rat­ing of the Gov­ern­ment

Ap­prove 38

Dis­ap­prove 45

Not Sure 17

Ap­proval Rat­ing of Kam­la as PM

Ap­prove 59

Dis­ap­prove 32

Not Sure 9

Ap­proval Rat­ing of Row­ley as Op­po­si­tion Leader

Ap­prove 46

Dis­ap­prove 38

Not Sure 16

Which Min­is­ter im­press­es the most with per­for­mance

Jack Warn­er 35

Glenn Ra­mad­hars­ingh 24

Vas­ant Bharath 17

Roodal Mooni­lal 12

Oth­ers/NS 12