Policy over personality, say voters

Policy over personality, say voters

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The policies of individual candidates to improve Bangkok are key to who will be the winner of the May 22 gubernatorial election, a survey by the National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll, reveals.

The poll was conducted from April 4–8 via telephone interviews of 1,325 eligible voters across various levels of education, incomes and occupations in Bangkok to compile their opinions on what they thought were essential factors for candidates to win the election.

Asked whether they thought national-level politics would have any effect on voters’ decisions, 31.25% said “yes, very much”, 30.41% said “no, not at all”, 24.38% said it would have some effect and 13.96% said it would have little effect.

Asked what they thought would…