A survey which was organized by Universiti Putra
Malaysia (UPM), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) dan Universiti Malaya (UM)
under Yayasan Ehwal Siswazah (YES) found strong support for BN among students
with 63% convinced that BN will win the coming GE13 and only 37% expects PR to
win.
Survey on opposition-led states also showed
increase in support for Dato’ Seri Najib as followed, Kelantan 60.8%, Kedah,
63.8% and Selangor 54.55%. From all respondents, 40.1% has been identified as
undecided voters and 80% of them are ready to vote for the coming GE.
Even though the survey found only small gap between
the number of government (30.1%) and opposition (29.8%) supporters, only 0.3%
difference, but overall, students are more confident with the leadership of
Dato’ Seri Najib at 67.4% compared to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim 52.2%, Datuk
Seri Hadi Awang 31.3% and at the bottom, Lim Kit Siang with only 1.5%.
Kit Siang also led the category of leaders who do
not deserve to be the Prime Minster with 61.5%, followed by Hadi Awang 26.2%
and Anwar Ibrahim 16.2%. The findings can be considered as something
interesting because at the same time, the survey also showed that the favourite
political media among students is Malaysiakini, a pro-opposition media which
lied in most of their stories.
Indirectly, the survey proves that majority university
students are wise enough to judge the credibility on stories that are published
by the media and they are not easily influenced.
What we can process from this survey is that how
can the survey on the support of political parties among students taken by
UMCEDEL showed different result where it showed increasing support for the
opposition. UMCEDEL survey also showed that the Chinese comes on top in
rejecting BN with more than 90% and that seems confusing especially if we are
to look at Kit Siang low popularity in YES's findings.
Considering that the credibility of UMCEDEL's
Chairman is in doubt due to the history with Anwar in ABIM, it is wise for us
to choose based on the findings from YES instead of UMCEDEL.
For that, even though the findings showed positive
numbers for BN, BN should take a proactive approach to increase the trust from
students by handling current weaknesses, especially in terms of preparing an
alternative media platform which could go against Malaysiakini in terms of
articles and news. It is now time for BN to change its mentality to sync with
our youth.
Light, harsh and obscene stories written by most
pro-BN media is one of the reasons why some students who prefer to converse in
English, chooses to read Malaysiakini even though they are aware of the nature
of the media.
There is no doubt that such approach does provide
positive impact towards certain groups, however, it is not wrong for BN to use
other ways for other target readers. If that is achieved, then BN's would
definitely grow a lot stronger to face GE13.
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