With the approach of the fourth anniversary of the 921 earthquake, a reconstruction association unveiled the results of a poll at a press conference yesterday to call attention to the continuing plight of the victims.
Shih Chin-feng (
The poll was conducted between Aug. 27 and Sept. 9 among people still living in a prefabricated-housing complex.
The survey found that 80 percent of the respondents are dissatisfied with the reconstruction work carried out by the central and local governments.
The survey found that 42 percent of the respondents think the biggest hurdle to reconstruction is economic, with 31 percent saying the biggest problem lies in getting loans and another 12 percent citing legal problems.
Shih said that 80 percent of the respondents are not satisfied with the government's 921 Earthquake Post Disaster Recovery Commission and only 5 percent are satis-fied. Almost 81 percent said they are dissatisfied with the reconstruction work in Nantou County and only 5 percent said they are satisfied.
On the use of reconstruction funds, 72 percent said they are not satisfied, compared with 11 percent who said they are satisfied.
With the 921 Earthquake Post Disaster Recovery Commission due to be disbanded next year, the survey found that 70 percent of the respondents believe the commission should continue to exist, while 19 percent said it should be disbanded.
Asked whether the reconstruction work will affect next year's presidential election, 85 percent said this would be possible, 2 percent said it would be unlikely and 13 percent offered no opinion.
Meanwhile, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) party whip Chen Chi-mai (
Chen said that most of the people who had been living in the prefabricated-housing complex had already left and he claimed that the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the People First Party had influenced the reconstruction association into basing its survey on a very limited sample.
He noted that of just 212 out of the 402 questionnaires distributed were returned and he said the sampling was questionable, since none of the respondents who had been rehoused were included.
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