Dr Smith & Hon Fahie in dead heat for preferred VI leader- Opinion Poll
According to the survey, the question was asked ‘Who is the preferred leader at this time?’ It showed that 20% of persons responding prefers Dr Smith while 17% prefers Hon Fahie, which is within the margin of error.
It showed that the Education and Culture Minister Hon Myron V. Walwyn (AL) polled third with 15% and Hon Ronnie W. Skelton (AL), the Health and Social Development Minister, polled fourth with 8%. Another 20% did not answer the question or didn’t care.
Dead heat among Hons Walwyn, Skelton & Pickering
In another interesting revelation, when asked if there should be a change in leadership within the two major parties- Virgin Islands Party (VIP) and the National Democratic Party (NDP)- some 51% said it’s time for an NDP leadership change with 15% saying no.
Meanwhile, respondents when asked if there should be a leadership change in the VIP, only 23% said yes while 40% said no.
When asked who should be the preferred alternative to Hon Smith, some 28% said Dr The Hon Kedrick D. Pickering (R7) while 26% said Hon Walwyn, a statistical dead heat. Hon Skelton polled 25%, also showing there is a three way tie for the NDP leadership preference by the responders.
On the VIP side, 61% said Hon Julian Fraser RA (R3) was their second choice for VIP leader with former Legislator Irene Penn O’Neal with 14%.
Public wants Smith to retire
For the next general election constitutionally due by early 2019, when asked about anticipated leadership on the NDP side, some 37% wants Dr Smith to retire and 32% expects him to continue. While on the VIP side, 75% wants Hon Fahie to stay and lead and a mere 1% thinks he should retire.
This is the second public opinion poll done and released by Mr Wickham of CADRES, who spoke exclusively to our newsroom today April 3, 2018 but declined to reveal his client.
The earlier public opinion poll released last week showed the public wanting a new political party and thinking the country is going in the wrong direction. Some 700 respondents were surveyed.
Mr Julian Willock from the local polling firm Advance Marketing and Professional Services, when contacted, declined to comment but said “Mr Wickham’s work is credible, and respected in the region.”
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38 Responses to “Dr Smith & Hon Fahie in dead heat for preferred VI leader- Opinion Poll”
On the other hand Andrew is looking good as he has an upside in age and experience for his age. 17 % is a good start that you can build upon but he needs to bring a more positive perspective going forward with solutions and rebuild his party with an unified and optimistic approach. Sell himself as he did a great job in the 1st after the Hurricanes and if he can do that well there then imagine what he can do for the country. They will try to smear him now as NDP got the money behind them, so this would be a dirty election. He must defend where necessary and try to resist the temptation to descend in to the pit with them as that is what they want.
Early days yet and a long way to go for both sides. This is just a poll and at the end of the day it is votes that count so turning out the vote is essential to a positive outcome.
then there might be one other surprise, everything else remain status Quoto. Now take this to the bank or to your mother's grave!!!
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Brother, where is your party, who are the members? If election is constitutionally due within 9 to 12 months what are you doing, when will we know who your party members are? what if sleepy my Zzzzzzz call a snap election, who you going to run with or who is going to run with you. Enquiry minds want to know!!!!!
Ok. This survey is useless, ill-timed and self serving. To often it is used as a cliche, but the BVI is literally at a crossroad and in a crisis and needs planning, organization, leadership..........etc to put it on a sustainable path. As such we cannot be leaning on some survey to tell us which leader to choose to lead us out of crisis. Instead, potential leaders should be communicating to us their 5-, 10-,15- and 20-year plans, programmes, policies, strategies.......etc for rebuilding the territory. Furthermore, they also need to tell us how they are going to fund their policies initiatives.