Staff Reporter:
Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam yesterday said that the choice of adopting the Proportion-al Representation (PR) electoral system or maintaining the existing method must be made by the political parties themselves.
“The government should preferably speak less on the matter of the electoral system,” he told the presen-tation of survey results conducted by the research organization ‘Innovation’ at the Daily Star conference room yesterday.
Addressing the findings of the electoral survey, Shafiqul Alam said that the statistics presented demon-strate that the public has trust in the government.
He highlighted the high level of public intent to participate, noting that 95 percent of people want to vote, which signifies that the upcoming election is destined to be an inclusive election.
The press secretary said that if everyone turns out to vote, the process is “bound to be good”.
The survey, released by Innovation on the same day regarding the upcoming election, included 10,413 respondents.
According to the survey, a significant majority of respondents, 69.9 percent, believe that an interim gov-ernment would be capable of organizing a neutral election. Around 56 percent of people in the country still do not know about the PR system.
Among those surveyed the preference for the PR method was evenly divided 21.8 percent want the PR system, while 22.2 percent do not want it.
