More express dissatisfaction with Leung Chun-ying's policy address, new poll finds
Just 23 per cent of Hongkongers are satisfied with the policy address despite the announcement that more than HK$10 billion will go towards new measures to help the poor, a University of Hong Kong survey showed.
Dissatisfaction with Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's second policy address has soared in the days since he delivered it last week, new poll results show.
More than two-thirds of the 519 respondents said Leung did too little to help the middle class.
The public's dissatisfaction rate with the address rose 10 percentage points, from 31 per cent in an instant survey on the day of the address to 41 per cent in follow-up polls conducted over the next two days.
The net satisfaction rate - the difference between the two - also dropped 23 percentage points, from a positive 5 per cent in the instant study to minus 18 per cent in the follow-up.
Dr Robert Chung Ting-yiu, director of HKU's public opinion programme, said the appraisal had changed from positive to negative because most of the respondents who did not express an opinion at first now held a negative view of the address.
While there was 62 per cent support for the new allowance for the working poor, 70 per cent agreed that Leung was not doing enough to help the middle class, with only 15 per cent disagreeing.
