Jul 13 2008
Malaysiakini poll on MIC future
Malaysiakini’s poll results on who should lead MIC after Samy Vellu looks similar to the poll I ran for 20 days in March.Malaysiakini had 5109 respondents while mine had only 138. Theirs ran for a day, while mine for 21 days.
Former deputy president S Subramaniam bagged 22.5 percent of the votes, the highest in the group. This was followed by SK Devamany, the deputy minister with 11 percent, while the sole MIC cabinet minister, Dr S Subramaniam took 10.5 percent. Palanivel was in fourth place at 3.1 percent while information chief M Saravanan picked up 2.5 percent. More significantly, bulk of the votes, 50.4 percent, went to no one in particular - a total of 2,544 Malaysiakini readers said “they did not favour any of the individuals mentioned”.
In my poll, Devamany took first place with 31 percent of the votes, followed by Dr S.Subramaniam with 8 percent, Dato Subra at 6 percent, Samy Vellu (3 percent) and Saravanan last at 2 percent. I did not put up Palanivel. As for those who didn’t want any of them, don’t care, or don’t have any idea, the total is 49 percent!
The similarity in both the polls is that the Devamany is in the top two list, while Saravanan came last. Interestingly, the top three positions in both polls were taken by Dato Subra, Devamany and Dr S.Subramaniam. A more glaring imilarity is that majority of the respondents did not like the choices available!
Malaysiakini asked few more questions as shown in the graphics above. Almost 90 percent wanted Samy, who has helmed the party for almost three decades, to quit “immediately”.
About 70 percent believed that MIC should shed its race-based politics, while 42.5 percent wanted MIC to quit BN and join the opposition Pakatan Rakyat.
Popularity: 2% [?]
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