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A survey prepared by Dr. Nabil Kukali has revealed: (91.0%) Oppose attacking the churches in the territories of the Palestinian territories. (65.2%) Are in favor of the dissolution of the Executive Force in Gaza Strip. (30.1%) Believe that Mr. Ismael Haniyyeh is the most credible personality to be charged with the formation of the national unity government. (57.5%) Are to various degrees in favor of holding premature PLC-elections, whilst only (42.5%) are to various extents in favor of holding premature Palestinian Authority presidential elections. (65.4%) Support the strike of the public sector employees and workers. (35.3%) Are in favor of forming a national unity government on the basis of the national dialogue charter. (61.8%) Oppose the dissolution of the Palestinian Authority. (45.9%) Evaluated the performance of the PA-President with "very good" and "good", whilst (40.0%) did that for the performance of the Palestinian Prime Minister. (33.5%) Believe that the US intervention is responsible for the present Palestinian crisis, whilst (27.7%) refer that to the sticking of Hamas to its positions. (52.7%) Oppose the Palestinian government's refusal of the international Quartet conditions Beit Sahour – from the Information Section In the most recent poll prepared by Dr. Nabil Kukali, Director of the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion (PCPO), and conducted during the period from October 8th to 15th, 2006, a random sample of (1020) respondents, representing the various demographic specimen of the people living in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip, who are above 18 years old, has been interviewed. The most significant result of this poll, Dr. Kukali said, is that a high rate of the Palestinians, namely (52.7%), oppose the Palestinian government's refusal of the international Quartet conditions, specifically (52.5%) are from Gaza Strip and (52.8%) from the West Bank. In addition, Dr. Kukali has shown that (61.4%) are in favor of the meeting of the Palestinian President "Abu Mazin" with the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and pointed out that a considerable rate of the Palestinians are to various degrees in favor of holding premature national elections in the Palestinian territories, namely (57.5%), where (60.1%) are from the West Bank and (53.0%) are from Gaza Strip, whilst only (42.5%) to different extents are in favor of holding premature presidential elections. Dr. Kukali concluded furthermore from the poll findings that the Palestinian President, Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, is still enjoying a positive evaluation of his performance by the Palestinian people. This rate has reached (45.9%), whilst those who evaluated the performance of the Palestinian Prime Minister in a positive way were (40.0%) of the Palestinians. Dr. Nabil Kukali said the results of the poll where as follows: Q.1 Whom do you think is to be held responsible for the prevailing Palestinian crisis?
Q.2 What is your personal attitude towards the strike of the employees and workers of the public sector?
Q.3 How do you evaluate the position of Hamas towards the strike of the employees and workers of the public sector?
Q.4 How do you evaluate the performance of the Palestinian Authority President, Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, at present?
Q.5 How do you evaluate the performance of the Palestinian Prime Minister, Mr. Ismael Haniyyeh at present?
Q.6 Are you for or against the dissolution of the Palestinian Authority?
Q.7 Are you in favor or not in favor of holding premature Palestinian national elections at present?
Q.8 Are you in favor or not in favor of holding premature Palestinian presidential elections at present?
Q.9 What should be the constitution of the national unity government to be formed in order to put an end to the prevailing crisis?
Q.10 Are you in favor or not in favor of attacking the churches in the background of the Pope's comments on Islam?
Q.11 Are you in favor of keeping the Executive Force that is formed in Gaza by the Palestinian Ministry of interior, or are you in favor of its dissolution?
Q.12 Who is the Palestinian personality you trust more than any other one to be charged with the formation of the national unity government? Open question:
Q.13 Mr. Ismael Haniyyeh has once again reiterated the refusal of the Palestinian government of the international Quartet conditions. Do you agree with his position, or not?
Methodology of the Survey Study: Mr. Elias Kukali, a staff member of the Research and Studies' Section at the PCPO, said that all interviews of this survey were conducted inside the respondents' homes, i.e. face-to-face during different working hours, at least 5 hours a day, including the evening time, in order to ensure proper representation of those sub-groups of the population, which would otherwise be difficult to reach and selecting one individual in each household using Last Birthday Method. The choices were taken from a total of (156) election sites, from which (113) sites are located in West Bank and (43) sites in Gaza Strip according to the distribution of the Central Election Commission. These election sites were randomly chosen by using the method of the simple random sample. These in turn were the beginning of the random sample choice made from those regions in accordance with PCPO's long experienced methodology. |