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Jamaicans are a little more upbeat about the People's National Party (PNP) and its <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">leadership</SPAN>, the latest Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson poll shows.
The poll, conducted on January 5 and 6, shows that of 1,008 Jamaicans interviewed by Johnson's research team across the island's 14 parishes, 39 per cent of people feel the PNP would do a better job of governing the country than the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Jamaica</SPAN> Labour Party (JLP). This is an improvement of one per cent over October when 38 per cent of people polled felt the PNP would do a better job of governing.
According to the poll, 42 per cent of people have a favourable opinion of the PNP, again, only a one per cent improvement over October 2006.
The JLP, however, slid slightly at the turn of the new year. Thirty-two per cent of people think the party will govern better, down by one per cent from the October poll. Favourable opinion of the party is also down three per cent, moving from 48 per cent to 45 per cent.
PNP slipping
But <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">overall</SPAN> more people have been looking to the JLP as the party that would do a better job of governing the country. The party made a three per cent improvement over March and a six per cent gain over May. Meanwhile, the PNP has been slipping since March, losing 11 per cent in leadership opinion and five per cent in favourable opinion.
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