Global Views Survey Research Center (President Ma Ying-jeou’s second anniversary in office, the DPP’s Mainland policy, and future cross-Strait relations)

Global Views Survey Research Center (GVSRC)

Survey Topic: President Ma Ying-jeou’s second anniversary in office, the DPP’s Mainland policy, and future cross-Strait relations

1.     Do you think President’s Ma’s cross-Strait policy is a success or failure?

	May 2009	May 2010
Success	53.4%	47.8%
Failure	24.2%	34.2%
No opinion / Don’t know	22.4%	18%

2.     Do you think President’s Ma’s foreign policy is a success or failure?

	May 2009	May 2010
Success	42.6%	43.4%
Failure	28.8%	37.0%
No opinion / Don’t know	28.6%	19.6%

3.     President Ma Ying-jeou’s approval and trust ratings:

Date	Satisfied	Dissatisfied
July 2009	35.5%	52.3%
August 2009	21.5%	59.6%
September 2009	28.2%	59.6%
October 2009	29.5%	58.6%
November 2009	28.3%	61.0%
December 2009	23.5%	62.2%
January 2010	23.2%	66.3%
February 2010	24.7%	62.7%
March 2010	23.8%	66.0%
April 2010	26.6%	61.4%
May 2010	30.4%	58.9%

4.      

Date	Trust	Distrust
July 2009	45.2%	39.1%
August 2009	36.9%	47.2%
September 2009	44.8%	41.6%
October 2009	41.8%	42.4%
November 2009	38.6%	44.6%
December 2009	38.0%	46.4%
January 2010	36.4%	46.6%
February 2010	41.3%	43.2%
March 2010	38.8%	47.1%
April 2010	37.1%	44.7%
May 2010	42.3%	44.5%

4.     Figures showing satisfaction ratings of Premier Wu Den-yi:

Date	Satisfied	Dissatisfied
November 2009	34.4%	43.5%
February 2010	41.3%	41.3%
May 2010	42.7%	42.6%

5.     Figures showing satisfaction ratings of Cabinet members:

Date	Satisfied	Dissatisfied
November 2009	28.0%	47.5%
February 2010	28.4%	51.0%
May 2010	31.2%	50.2%

6.     Figures showing satisfaction ratings of KMT legislators in the Legislative Yuan:

Date	Satisfied	Dissatisfied
July 2009	22.7%	59.1%
August 2009	21.5%	59.6%
September 2009	25.8%	56.8%
October 2009	21.9%	58.5%
November 2009	25.9%	57.2%
December 2009	20.3%	59.8%
January 2010	18.0%	63.9%
February 2010	21.9%	60.6%
March 2010	21.5%	60.6%
April 2010	21.9%	59.7%
May 2010	25.4%	59.8%

7.     Do you think that the DPP supports a larger scale of cross-Strait exchanges with the Mainland?

Date	Yes	No
November 2008	10.6%	60.5%
December 2009	17.9%	59.8%
May 2010	28.8%	49.0%

8.     If the DPP expends exchanges with the Mainland, do you think it will be helpful in striving for Taiwan’s interests?

Date	Yes	No
December 2009	49.1%	32.4%
May 2010	53.0%	29.1%

9.     Do you think that the DPP needs to adjust its Mainland policy in the next two years?

Date	December 2009	May 2010
Yes, more open	51.2%	58.3%
Yes, more conservative	11.9%	8.6%
No	8.6%	9.2%

10.  Do you think that President Ma Ying-jeou should meet with Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the CCP, to discuss cross-Strait relations and their future in the next two years?

Date	Yes	No
April 2008	68.3%	15.6%
May 2010	51.5%	34.7%

11.  Which party do you think does a better job in protecting Taiwan’s overall interests and maintaining cross-Strait peace?

KMT	45.3%
DPP	29.9%
Both	1.6%
neither	4.0%

12.  If the DPP returns to power in 2012, do you think cross-Strait relations will be better, worse, or about the same, compared to the current cross-Strait relations?

Better	9.8%
Worse	33.9%
No change / About the same	40.4%

Note: The latest poll was conducted from 18:20 pm to 22:00 pm between May 13 and 16 with 1,010 people surveyed. The margin of error associated with this sample is plus or minus 3.1 % with a 95 % confidence interval.

Source: Global Views Survey Research Center (GVSRC)

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