Most people want someone who do not represent political parties to chair the House committee studying constitutional amendment, according to an opinion survey by the National Institute for Development Administration, or Nida Poll.
The poll, conducted on Wednesday and Thursday on 1,257 people aged from 18 nationwide, sought opinions on who should chair the proposed committee to be set up to study constitution amendment.
A majority, 59.1%, of the respondents said the chairman should be a person who does not represent coalition or opposition parties. Others say the chairman should represent the opposition parties (16.6%), coalition parties (12.9%) and government (8.4%). Some 2.9% had no comment or are not interested in the issue.
Asked what qualities they would like to see in the committee chairman, 37.1% of the respondents say the person should have no clear conflicts of interest in the 2017 constitution. Others say the chairman should be:
- a known supporter of the 2017 charter (21.3%);
- a former writer of any charter (15.2%);
- a person who never wrote any charter before (7.4%);
- a person who clearly does not support the 2017 charter (7.2%);
- a person who did not write the 2017 charter (6.6%);
- a person who has never clearly supported or opposed the 2017 charter (6%);
- a former writer of the 2017 charter (5.6%);
- a person who benefits from the 2017 charter (3%); and
- a person who stands to lose as a result the 2017 charter (1.9%)
Some 4.4% of the respondents have no comments.
Asked how long the committee should take to complete the study, the respondents say less than six months (46.2%), no longer than one year (32.1%), no fixed period (11.1%), less than two years (6.3%), less than three years (2.9%), less than five years (0.32%) and no comments (1.03%).