Palestinian Public Opinion Polls: Views on Government Infrastructure and Political System
(2007)
Which leader is capable of ending the internal conflict? (Near East Consulting, May 22 and 24, 2007)
Abu Mazen | 12% |
Khaled Masha'al | 6% |
Marwan Barghouti | 18% |
Ismael Hanieh | 5% |
Mahmoud Dahlan | 9% |
Mahmoud Zanhar | 2% |
Others | 5% |
No one can end the conflict | 45% |
Do you support declaring a state of emergency in the Gaza Strip? (Near East Consulting, May 22 and 24 2007)
Yes | 56% |
No | 44% |
Do you support calling early presidential and legislative elections? (Near East Consulting, May 22 and 24 2007)
Yes | 69% |
No | 31% |
What should Abu Mazen do to end the conflict in the Gaza Strip? (Near East Consulting, May 22 and 24 2007)
Leave the situation the way it is | 12% |
Dissolve the PA and declare a state of emergency | 38% |
Call for early elections | 50% |
Has the time come for PA President Mahmoud Abbas to resign? (Near East Consulting, May 22 and 24 2007)
Yes | 48% |
No | 52% |
Has the time come for the national unity government to resign? (Near East Consulting, May 22 and 24 2007)
Yes | 60% |
No | 40% |
Will the crisis between Hamas and Fateh end, or explode out of control? (Near East Consulting, May 22 and 24 2007)
It will end completely | 25% |
It will spiral out of control | 75% |
A civil war is: (Near East Consulting, May 22 and 24 2007)
Very likely | 38% |
Likely | 27% |
Unlikely | 29% |
Very unlikely | 6% |
Do you think that the current government is capable of implementing the security plan that it declared to put an end to the security mayhem?: (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
Yes | 18.6% |
No | 73.5% |
No opinion/ I don't know | 7.9% |
Do you think that the Mecca Accord will hold for long between Fateh and Hamas?: (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University, May 17-19, 2007)
Yes | 6.9% |
No | 67.2% |
Maybe | 21.6% |
No opinion/I don't know | 4.3% |
Do you think that the National Unity Government will continue to perform its duties in the coming period or will collapse? (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University, May 17-19, 2007)
It will continue to perform its duties | 19.1% |
It will collapse | 68.6% |
No opinion/I do not know | 12.3% |
Do you think that Hamas is really concerned with the success of a Unity Government? (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University, May 17-19, 2007)
Yes | 35.3% |
No | 54.4% |
No opinion/ I don't know | 10.3% |
Do you think that Fateh is really concerned with the success of a Unity Government? (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
Yes | 37.0% |
No | 50.9% |
No opinion/ I don't know | 12.1% |
Do you think that the National Unity Government succeeded, if partially, to ease up the political sanctions imposed on the Palestinian Authority? (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
Yes | 24.0% |
No | 70.9% |
No opinion/ I don't know | 5.1% |
Do you think that the National Unity Government succeeded, if partially, to ease up the financial sanctions imposed on the Palestinian Authority? (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
Yes | 21.4% |
No | 74.5% |
No opinion/ I don't know | 4.1% |
Do you think that the present government is capable of securing the salaries of its employees in the near future?: (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
Yes | 26.6% |
No | 61.8% |
No opinion/ I don't know | 11.6% |
Do you think that the National Unity Government is capable of solving the problem of salaries?: (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
Yes | 28.7% |
No | 60.5% |
No opinion/ I don't know | 10.8% |
If the current government fails to improve the security and economic conditions, will you ask this government to resign?: (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
Yes | 71.4% |
No | 23.1% |
No opinion/ I don't know | 5.4% |
If the current government fails in performing its duties, what is the alternative?: (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
Conducting new elections | 48.1% |
Dissolving the Palestinian Authority | 21.3% |
Forming a new government | 22.2% |
No opinion/I don't know | 5.4% |
Lately, there have been voices calling for dissolving the Palestinian Authority. Do you support or reject this motion?: (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
I support | 46.0% |
I reject | 47.1% |
No opinion/ I don't know | 6.9% |
If the current government resigns, do you think that there will be a possibility for an agreement between the factions to form a new government?: (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
Yes | 37.9% |
No | 51.4% |
No opinion/ I don't know | 10.7% |
Under the current circumstances, do you think that the National Unity Government will survive until the end of this year?: (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
Yes | 34.6% |
No | 51.2% |
No opinion/ I don't know | 15.2% |
Do you think that the resignation of the Minister of the Interior Affairs is one step towards the collapse of the National Unity Government?: (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
Yes | 48.2% |
No | 39.8% |
No opinion/ I don't know | 12.0% |
Do you think that the last confrontations in the Gaza Strip practically aborted the Mecca Accord?: (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
Yes | 59.0% |
No | 35.1% |
No opinion/ I don't know | 5.9% |
Do you think that the National Unity Government is capable of controlling the situation in the Gaza Strip at the present?: (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
Yes | 19.0% |
No | 75.4% |
No opinion/ I don't know | 5.7% |
Do you think that the resignation of the Minister of the Interior will initiate a new crisis between Fateh and Hamas over the vacant position at the Ministry?: (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
Yes | 59.3% |
No | 27.9% |
No opinion/ I don't know | 12.8% |
Do you think that the National Unity Government came as a result of--?: (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
The desire of Fateh and Hamas to share authority | 24.8% |
Pressures exerted by the Palestinian Public | 27.0% |
Pressures exerted by some Arab countries | 18.7% |
Foreign pressures | 23.5% |
No opinion/I don't know | 6.0% |
Do you support or reject giving the responsibilities of negotiations with Israel to the PLO only?: (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
I support | 52.2% |
I reject | 40.1% |
No opinion/ I don't know | 7.7% |
Do you support or reject the reformation of the PLO so that it would include all nonmember Palestinian factions?: : (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
I support | 76.2% |
I reject | 18.1% |
No opinion/ I don't know | 5.7% |
If new presidential elections are conducted, whom do you vote for: (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
For a Fateh candidate | 33.1% |
For a Hamas candidate | 16.8% |
For a candidate from the left | 5.7% |
For an independent candidate | 16.4% |
No opinion/I don't know | 28.1% |
If new PLC elections are conducted, whom do you vote for: (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University , May 17-19, 2007)
For a Fateh candidate | 32.2% |
For a Hamas candidate | 17.4% |
For a candidate from the left | 5.5% |
For an independent candidate | 17.0% |
No opinion/I don't know | 27.9% |
Which of the following political affiliations do you support?: (Center for Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at An-Najah National University, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survery Research)
May 17-19, 2007 | August 28-30, 2008 | |
People's Party | 1.2% | 0.5% |
Democratic Front | 1.9% | 0.7% |
Islamic Jihad | 2.4% | 1.6% |
Fateh | 34.3% | 30.8% |
Hamas | 18.7% | 20.4% |
Fida | 0.3% | 0.0% |
Popular Front | 4.4% | 4.6% |
Palestinian National Initiative | 0.5% | 0.8% |
I am an independent nationalist | 6.5% | 2.9% |
I am an independent Islamist | 3.5% | 2.9% |
None of the above | 25.3% | 33.9% |
Others | 0.7% | 1.0% |