Dhaka Tribune’s national opinion poll on the government’s one-year performance rating has revealed broad satisfaction among the general population.
Nearly 72% of the respondents rated the incumbent Awami League-led government, which came to power through the January 5 national election a year ago, as either very successful or just successful.
The current poll shows a marginal drop from the previous opinion poll six months ago, when 75.3% of the respondents said they were satisfied with the government.
Conversely, Awami League’s arch rival BNP, which went out of parliament for the first time in 23 years because of its election boycott, has been rated as unsuccessful by a significant majority of the respondents.
More than 62% of the respondents said the BNP had failed to project itself as a better alternative than the Awami League.
From December 28 to 31, a total of 600 adults, comprising male and female from both urban and rural settings, were interviewed over telephone using a mostly structured questionnaire.
The Dhaka Tribune poll six months ago showed that fewer people, that is around 52%, were unhappy with the BNP.
After a year in office, education has been the government’s biggest success and also the people’s number one priority, according to the latest Dhaka Tribune opinion poll.
Similarly, the number two concern for the people was infrastructure development and they also gave the government high marks in this sector.
Six months ago, 43.4% interviewees said infrastructure development was the government’s biggest success; this time around, 24.1% people said the government’s performance in the education sector has been the most satisfactory.
In the August poll, respondents said the government should give more attention to controlling the law and order situation. This time though, the highest 23.7% of the respondents said education should be the government’s top priority.
Nearly a fourth of the respondents of this poll have opined that the government has no major failures. Interestingly, only about one out of every five respondents thought the same way six months ago.
Neither the war crimes trial nor the Digital Bangladesh agenda is seen as either a major success or a major issue to the respondents of the present poll.
