Survey: Voters of ruling AKP think Turkey is governed well
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The Yöneylem Social Research Center has announced the results of its survey in March.
The survey including questions about the governance of the country and the popular support of political parties and alliances was conducted among 2,400 people from 27 provinces.
If there were elections this Sunday, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) would receive 31.2 percent of the votes and the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) would receive 28.6 percent, with the undecided voters distributed to the parties proportionally.
The two parties are followed by the İYİ (Good) Party, the allies of the CHP, with 14.5 percent, the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) with 10 percent, and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the allies of the AKP, with 7.8 percent.
The combined share of votes of the opposition CHP and İYİ Party exceeds that of the ruling alliance of the AKP and the MHP.
How Turkey is governed
When asked how Turkey is governed, 60.6 percent of the respondents said "badly" and 22.1 percent said "well."
Among the AKP voters, 70.7 percent responded "well" while only 8.5 responded "badly."
93.5 percent of the CHP voters, 92.9 of the HDP voters, and 94 percent of the İYİ Party voters think Turkey is governed badly. Among the MHP voters, this rate is 24.1 percent.
In the same month last year, the share of those who thought Turkey was governed badly was 45.3 percent, the pollster noted.
In November 2021, when the Turkish lira rapidly depreciated, the share of those who thought the country was governed badly rose to as high as 70 percent.
When asked to compare this year and last year, 88.9 percent of the respondents said the situation of the country was worse this year.
Also, 62.9 percent of the respondents expect it to be worse next year while 20.9 percent say it will be better.
Fifty-one percent of the respondents said they were not able to pay a bill or meet a basic need last month. (RT/VK)