KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian federal government's popularity has sunk as the country's 15th General Election approaches.
Approval for the Barisan Nasional-led federal government tumbled to 31 per cent in an October survey, which was done a week after the ruling party Umno pushed through for elections to be held during a perilous monsoon flooding season.
This was down from 38 per cent in September.
Meanwhile, 60 per cent of respondents in October said they were angry or dissatisfied with the government, up from 51 per cent the month before.
The latest approval rating is even lower than the BN government's 39 per cent in April 2018, days before the Umno-led alliance was ousted for the first time in the country's history.
BN received the highest disapproval from non-Malays, at 83 per cent; dissatisfaction towards the coalition was 48 per cent among Malays.
The survey was conducted from Oct 19 to 28 among 1,209 adult Malaysian voters by independent pollster Merdeka Centre for Opinion Research.
This story is from the November 05, 2022 edition of The Straits Times.
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