Company Measures Performance Of Parliament, Political Parties And Government

ANKARA - A survey company measured performances of Turkish Parliament, political parties, government and also examined topics of July within the context of ''Turkey Agenda Survey''.
The survey is carried out in Istanbul, Tekirdag, Izmir, Bursa, Adana, Ankara, Konya, Samsun, Trabzon, Erzurum, Malatya and Gaziantep provinces between July 28 and 30 and 3033 people participated to the survey.
Participants were asked ''What do you think about the overall performance of Turkish Parliament during the previous working period?'' and 52 percent replied ''successful'', 37.2 percent ''unsuccessful'' and 10.8 percent did not have any idea.
According to the survey, the answers of participants as regards the performance of Parliament and their distribution to political parties are as follows: (%) SUCCESSFUL UNSUCCESSFUL NO IDEA
AK PARTY 77,3 14,3 8,5 CHP 31,4 58,1 10,5 DYP 29,0 59,4 11,6 MHP 41,6 49,7 8,7 GP 5,6 85,9 8,5 DEHAP 38,6 52,4 9,0 ANAP 47,8 47,8 4,3 SP 53,6 46,4 0,0 Others 32,5 62,4 5,1 No Idea 42,2 40,0 17,9 None 33,2 50,0 16,8

Participants were also asked whether they considered Speaker Bulent Arinc as successful and 56.6 percent replied ''yes'', 28.7 percent replied ''no'' and 14.7 percent said ''no idea''.
The question ''Do you think Bulent Arinc should be the Parliament Speaker again in the next period?'' was replied positively by 52 percent, negatively by 32.2 percent and 15.8 percent said they have no idea.
(GC-ULG) 09.08.2004