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Publication Date: Monday, 13 October 2014
Fieldwork: 1-2 October 2014
Sample Size: 1200 Palestinian in the West Bank and Gaza
Margin of error: ±3%
Highlights:
- Mahmoud Abbas’ positive evaluations are on the rebound: 36 percent of Palestinians evaluate his performance as “good”, 33 percent believe his performance is “average,” and 29 percent assess it as a “weak”.
- Khaled Mashal’s evaluations have dipped: 37 percent believe his performance is “good”, 30 percent believe his performance is “average,” and 25 percent evaluate it as “weak”.
- A higher percentage of respondents choose a Hamdallah-led government over a Haniyeh-led one.
- 50 percent of Gazans prefer a Hamdallah-led government, 35 percent prefer a Haniyeh-led government and 29 percent prefer a Hamdallah-led government in the West Bank.
- 74 percent have full or some confidence in the Unity Government to oversee reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.
- 56 percent believe that Palestinians won the recent Gaza war. 9 percent believe that Israel was the winner and 34 percent believe that neither won the war.
- 34 percent presently identify with the Abbas approach to ending the war on Gaza “an increase in popularity”, while 36 percent continue to identify with the Hamas approach.
- 56 percent did not follow the President’s speech in front of the UN General Assembly. Among the followers, 51 percent evaluate his speech as “positive”.
- Fatah and Hamas are equally distrusted; each faction is distrusted by an equal 37 percent of respondents; 25 percent says they do not know which faction they trust less.
- Abbas and Marwan Barghouthi continue to be the most popular prospective presidential candidates, followed by Hamas leaders Haniyeh and Mashal
- In the event that President Abbas refrains from candidacy, Marwan Bargouthi leads the polls with 31 percent, followed by 22 percent for Mashal; 29 percent will not vote or do not know who they will vote for.