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Thursday, March 23, 2017

‘HUDUD’ OVERRATED – UMNO HAS BEEN DUPED BY NAJIB, HADI: 10% MALAY-MUSLIM VOTERS SAY ACT 355 DECIDING FACTOR – SURVEY

PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli said that only 10.4 percent of respondents in a recent survey would vote in the next election, based on the issue of the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965 (Act 355) amendments.
This is one of the conclusions drawn from a telephone survey conducted by Rafizi’s Invoke Centre for Policy Initiatives (I-CPI) which targeted only Malay-Muslim voters and received 40,030 respondents between March 16 and 22.
“Only 4,484 people or 10.4 percent of the 43,030 Malay-Muslim voters are of the opinion that the Act 355 amendments is a deciding issue in the 14th general election,” Rafizi said at a press conference in Sungai Besi today.
He said I-CPI decided to conduct this survey on the Act 355 amendments because this matter has become a national political issue, and the survey aims to compile quantitative data on the influence of this issue on the next general election.
“A lot of political decisions have been made and will be made by politicians, NGO leaders and the public based on whether they support the Act 355 amendments or not.
“It is important to really know the pulse of the fence-sitters and the common people, so that politicians are not syok sendiri (full of themselves) and talk about issues that are only important to some groups of people,” Rafizi added.
The survey also found that only 29.9 percent of their respondents, that is 12,857 of them, said they were aware of the Act 355 amendments issue.
Out of those 12,857, about 44.4 percent initially said they believe the Act 355 amendments issue was the most important factor in deciding their vote in the forthcoming election.
However, Rafizi said they wanted to weed out respondents who were indecisive or answering without much thought, and they tried to narrow it down by asking the same respondents which issue they thought was more important: the Act 355 amendments or the economic situation of the country.
That question revealed that 34.9 percent said they believed the Act 355 amendments were more important than the country’s economic situation.
Rafizi said if people were truly passionate about Act 355 amendments being the most important issue in the election, they would know about the issue and be consistent with their answers.
I-CPI also cross-linked the results of this survey with its survey done in January, where they had asked respondents about which political party they intended to vote for, he said.
He explained that about 16 percent of the 40,030 respondents they got happened to be the same respondents from their January survey, so they managed to analyse which party’s voters were aware and not aware of the Act 355 amendments.
While it was not surprising that only 24.7 percent of BN voters and 38 percent of Pakatan Harapan voters from I-CPI’s data were aware of the Act 355 amendments, Rafizi said it was surprising to him that only 45.7 percent of PAS voters from their data, were aware of the issue.
PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang had previously submitted a Private Member’s Bill seeking to amend the maximum punishment that can be meted out by the syariah courts under Act 355, but Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said last Friday the government would be the one to table the bill.
“PAS should reflect that only 54.3 percent who want to vote for PAS know about Act 355 amendments.
“Even among your core voters, they don’t know about Act 355 amendments,” Rafizi said.
– M’kini

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