An overwhelming majority of Jamaicans are of the view that both the governing Jamaica Labour Party and the opposition People’s National Party are corrupt.
That’s one of findings of the Nationwide Bluedot polls.
The Bluedot pollsters have confirmed what’s generally known – the country’s two major political parties are viewed as corrupt.
The numbers are very bad.
The respondents were asked “On a scale of 1 to 4 where 1 means not at all corrupt, and 4 means very corrupt, how corrupt do you think the current JLP government is?
25-per cent of the respondents said the JLP government is very corrupt while 32-per cent said it was somewhat corrupt and 25-per cent said the Holness administration was not very corrupt.
Only 17-per cent of the 12-hundred likely voters said the government was not at all corrupt.
This means a big majority of 82-per cent said the Holness administration is somehow corrupt.
The same question was also asked about the PNP.
32-per cent described the opposition party as very corrupt. This is 7-percentage points more than the 25-per cent who had a similar view of the JLP.
39-per cent described the PNP as somewhat corrupt. Again, 7-percentage points more than the 32-per cent who had a similar view of the JLP.
Only 12-per cent described the PNP as not at all corrupt.
This means that a massive 88-per cent majority said the PNP is somehow corrupt.
This finding partly explains why the PNP has been failing to make any headway against the JLP despite the opposition’s strident attacks on the Holness administration that it’s corrupt.
The Bluedot poll was conducted across the island between July 20 and August 6. It has a margin of error of 2.75-percent.
