{"id":6043,"date":"2016-10-25T10:20:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T10:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/?p=6043"},"modified":"2020-07-01T20:49:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T20:49:44","slug":"new-crgberci-report-nationwide-political-opinion-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/2016\/10\/25\/new-crgberci-report-nationwide-political-opinion-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"New CRG\/BERCI report: Nationwide Political Opinion Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide is-core-separator-block\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px\">\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:45px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n  <div id=\"anchor-nav-position-block_5efcf6dd6311b\" class=\"c-block-anchor-nav-position o-wrapper__inner\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;\">\n    <div class=\"js-anchor-nav-position\"><\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"c-anchor-nav__mobile\">\n      <nav class=\"c-anchor-nav \"><span class=\"c-anchor-nav__heading\"> <\/span><ul class=\"c-anchor-nav__links o-list-bare\"><li class=\"c-anchor-nav__item\"><a href=\"#%20\" class=\"c-anchor-nav__link \"> <\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav>    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:30px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px\" class=\"is-core-paragraph-block has-space-small-mb\">The Bureau d&rsquo;&Eacute;tudes, de Recherches, et Consulting International (BERCI) and the Congo Research Group (CRG) at New York University conducted a nationally representative political opinion poll across the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Between May and September 2016, researchers interviewed 7,545 people in face-to-face interviews. Some of our main findings are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"is-core-list-block\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px\"><li>The popularity of President Kabila and his ruling coalition has plummeted since the 2011 elections. If elections were held this year, most respondents would vote for Moise Katumbi (33%), followed by Etienne Tshisekedi (18%), President Joseph Kabila (7,8%), and Vital Kamerhe (7,5%).<\/li><li>Respondents were skeptical of any challenge to the constitution: 81,4% rejected changing the constitution to allow President Joseph Kabila to run for a third term, and 74,3% said Kabila should leave office when his term ends on December 19, 2016.<\/li><li>Those surveyed emphasized the need for a negotiated solution to the current political impasse: 58, 6% said that the opposition and civil society should participate in such a dialogue. Nonetheless, 55% of respondents support candidates who are excluded from the deal finalized on October 18, 2016.<\/li><li>Trust has waned in the election commission, but not in elections themselves: Only 46,5% said they trust the electoral commission to hold free and fair elections. Nonetheless, 72,7% said they intended to vote.<\/li><li>Most endorsed the creation of a Congolese tribunal to judge war crimes: 76,4% were in favor. Of those, 71,4% approved of foreign judges sitting on the tribunal.<\/li><li>The UN peacekeeping mission MONUSCO is especially unpopular in the very areas where it has deployed most of its troops: in Nord Kivu (56,7%) and Sud Kivu (50,2%) a preponderance of respondents said MONUSCO should simply leave.<\/li><li>Most want elections to happen within the coming year. If elections have to be delayed, 41% said they should be held in 2017 while 13.7% said 2018 or later.<\/li><li>The poll revealed a sophisticated Congolese electorate with a good understanding of national politics. Gender, class, education, the urban-rural divide, and religion did not significantly influence answers to most questions.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:30px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px\" class=\"is-core-paragraph-block has-space-small-mb\">You can find the whole report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Final-Poll-CRG-BERCI.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bureau d&rsquo;&Eacute;tudes, de Recherches, et Consulting International (BERCI) and the Congo Research Group (CRG) at New York University conducted a nationally representative political opinion poll across the Democratic Republic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,36],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.congoresearchgroup.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}