Majority of Tanzanians content with president's performance: polls

An opinion poll has showed that the majority of the interviewees in Tanzania were content with the performance of their president and the governmental institutions in charge of local governance.

The poll results, available to this wire service on Saturday, showed that 67.4 percent of those interviewed by the Research and Education for Democracy in Tanzania Program are satisfied with President Jakaya Kikwete while 42.2 percent of the interviewees are satisfied with the performance of local government authorities.

The national parliament, the Tanzania Commission for AIDS and the Cabinet as a whole are the three other government institutions that also scored high on the poll, garnering 39.2 percent, 35.4 percent and 33.8percent of satisfaction respectively.

President Kikwete scored 67 percent of satisfaction in Tanzania's mainland and posted 62 percent of satisfaction in Zanzibar. The Indian Ocean archipelago is the stronghold of Tanzania's main opposition party -- Civic United Front.

A total of 1,300 people were selected, with 50 from a district from each of the country's 26 administrative regions during the poll. Half of the interviewees were women.

The opinion poll, conducted to mark the first-year anniversary of the fourth-phase government of the United Republic of Tanzania, also pinpointed the public discontents.

The Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited scored dissatisfaction from 40.6 percent of the interviewees while the Prevention of Corruption Bureau posted discontent from 34 percent of the interviewees.

Source: Xinhua