Reporter Chen Yijie / Taipei Report
▲ In the 2024 confidence poll, New Taipei Mayor Hou Youyi (second from left) won first place, and KMT chairman Zhu Lilun (right) finished last. (Synthetic / flipped image from Facebook)
According to the December national poll conducted by “Formerly Island Electronic News,” the poll was conducted on “people’s confidence in political figures who could participate in the 2024 general election or are indicative.” First place is KMT Mayor of New Taipei Hou Youyi, with a confidence rating of 70.5 Lai Qingde, vice chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party, ranked second with 59.7 points, and last was Zhu Lilun , president of the Kuomintang, with 35.9 points.
According to the “Formerly Island Electronic News” survey, the “confidence index” ranges from 0 to 100 points. Difference. The results indicated that New Taipei Mayor Hou Youyi ranked first, Vice President Lai Qingde second, and the others were former Vice President Chen Chien-jen, President Tsai Ing-wen, former mayor Taipei Ke Wenzhe and KMT Chairman Zhu Lilun.
Hou Youyi, mayor of New Taipei City, increased by 4.0 points from October 2022 to 70.5 points, indicating that the impact of the Enen incident that erupted in June this year can also be seen that his influenza has generally vanished. Through the cross-analysis, it can be seen that people of all groups trust New Taipei Mayor Hou Youyi much more than distrust. It is also worth noting that 59.4% of Pan-Greens trust Hou Youyi and 35.4% do not.
Vice President Lai Qingde decreased by 0.5 points from the October 2022 survey to 59.7 points. The relationship between trust and distrust in Lai Qingde is very stable, which also reflects that the domestic public trust assessment and Lai Qingde’s image perception are very stable. It is also worth noting that 86.2% of people who trust President Tsai Ing-wen trust Lai Qingde and 41.3% of people who do not trust Tsai Ing-wen trust Lai Qingde .
In third place is former Vice President Chen Jianren, who increased by 0.2 points to 57.1 points from the October 2022 survey. Compared with the October survey, both positive and negative rating changes are within the range of sampling error.
The fourth is Tsai Ing-wen, who is 41.3 points less than in October 2022. 40.5% trust and 53.9% do not trust this month. In this month’s six politicians’ confidence index, President Tsai’s confidence index among all groups of people is only ahead of Zhu Lilun.
Fifth place is Ke Wenzhe, up 1.0 points to 44.7 points since October 2022. This poll is also Ke Wenzhe’s last poll before he stepped down as mayor of Taipei. Cross-analysis shows that, in general, people with a lower education background distrust Ke Wenzhe less. As for neutrals, 45.5% trust Ke Wenzhe and 39.7% do not. It can be seen that the rating of neutrals’ trust in Ke Wenzhe is a little different this month.
In sixth place is Zhu Lilun, who has risen by 5.0 points to 35.9 points since October 2022. Although the Kuomintang’s 9-in-1 election is believed to have won elections in 14 counties and cities and strengthened the prestige of party chairman , is still significantly lower than people Monthly impression of the Kuomintang (39.7% for, 46.3% against). Cross-analysis shows that only Kuomintang supporters have more trust in Zhu Lilun than distrust (55.3% versus 34.4%, the same as in June), while other groups of people clearly tend not to trust Zhu Lilun.
Furthermore, in terms of trust of supporters of other political parties in the party leader, 91.3% of supporters of the People’s Party trust party chairman Ke Wenzhe, while 86.8% of supporters of the DPP trust the ‘former party chairman Tsai Ing-wen (on election voting day 9 into 1. That night, he announced his resignation due to the defeat of the Democratic Progressive Party).
