POLL SHOWS THAT 90PERCENT OF VOTERS IN CURACAO BELIEVE THEIR VOTE DOESN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE

POLL SHOWS THAT 90PERCENT OF VOTERS IN CURACAO BELIEVE THEIR VOTE DOESN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE

By: JJosepha News

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Willemstad, Curacao. 2018 The independent polling research for the 2016 Curacao general election conducted by JJosephaNews indicates that almost 90 percent of those surveyed believe that their vote would not make a difference, compared to nine percent who believe it would. The question of whether the voters feel that the political race is fixed, and has a fixed outcome was neither asked nor suggested. But it leads to the belief that there might be a low voter turn-out on election day 2016 in Curacao, if everything goes as predicted. The survey also showed that there is a very small percentage differential for the four leading political parties, sufficient to fall within the margin of error, which is an example of how close the 2016 election is predicted to be according to the polling research and the data gathered. The research was conducted over three days of gathering information and covered the areas of Banda Ariba, Central Curacao and Banda Abou; respectively 22.48%, 44.96% and 32.56%, and via three methods of collecting the data, namely in vivo, via mobile and mobile app, and online questionnaire forms.

The results also illustrated that approximately 61 percent were in favour of allowing all parties that participated in the primary selection days of August 20 and 21 to participate in the national general election of September 30. In addition, approximately 71 percent of the sample said they did not trust the political parties that are running in the national general election, compared to 12 percent who said they did trust the political parties and 16 percent who were undecided. It is believed from trends that in the face of a low voter turn-out, a combination of KDNT-MFK-MPAS could potentially get greater than 44 percent of the votes to be cast in the general election, but that depends on: • A “quiet” Democratic Party, not bringing issues to the forefront of the public eyes; • The Movementu Progressivo political party being passive and not nullifying or putting their “Schottetje” on the backbench, the far backbench; • UKH becoming more assertive and critical of the difference between their leader and the other parliamentarians of SVC-2 and that UKH realizes that neither the LGBT nor the youth vote may be in their favour.

The major concerns that the voters surveyed expressed: I. That by an overwhelmingly majority of 64 percent they wanted a number of major problems resolved in the order of (1) the economy; (2) Wiels’ death and then a virtual tie between (3.1) the national debt and (3.2) unemployment. II. The other roughly 18 percent were “Other responses” that were individually expressed and written in by the voter. However, this seemed only to be evident when there was a completely sense of anonymity – for example, when a voter is in the voting booth. When the sample was able to answer in complete anonymity a large majority of the “Other response” were categorized accordingly: “Put Schotte in Jail” – 44% of Other Responses “Cut Parliamentarians Salary” – 17% of Other Responses “Get Rid of Alex Rosaria” – 13% of Other Responses “Get Rid of Navarro” – 13% of Other Responses “Remove Whiteman and Wiels” – 5% of Other Responses “Dishonest Parliamentarians” – 4% of Other Responses “Remove the Dutch Judges from the Curasaleno Courts” – 4% of Other Responses III. The remaining 18 percent of the concerns of the sampling were split between the following stated responses in descending order of value: – Crime – Education – Healthcare and pensions – Equal for everyone – Terrorism.

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