Half of the respondents to an opinion poll conducted by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) were concerned that the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) may abuse its legislative majority, pollsters said.
Some 46.2 percent of those surveyed also favored a revision to the new single member district, two vote system that was used for the first time during the legislative elections on Jan. 12 that many have blamed for contributing to the DPP's loss of seats.
The DPP conducted the telephone survey on randomly chosen voters on Tuesday and Wednesday to explore their views on the election results, the electoral system and the nation's political prospects. A total of 963 valid responses were collected.
In the hotly contested legislative polls, the KMT won 81 of the 113 legislative seats up for grabs, compared to a mere 27 seats for the DPP.
The latest DPP survey showed that 50.5 percent of those interviewed said they were worried that the KMT may abuse its absolute majority in the legislature to pass whatever legislation it wants, with 44.7 percent saying they had no such worries.
A cross analysis of the survey results showed that 82.7 percent of those who support the pan-green camp were worried about that scenario, but only 31.5 percent of supporters of the pan-blue camp harbored such worries.
Asked whether they were concerned that the KMT would only take care of the interests of certain elite groups of people, 51.9 percent said "yes," compared to 42 percent who said "no."
Asked about their views on the electoral results, 58.8 percent said they were satisfied, compared to 31.2 percent who were not.
Meanwhile, 46.2 percent supported a proposal that the new electoral system be amended to prevent an unreasonably large gap between the percentage of the vote and the number of legislative seats a party wins in an election, 31.9 percent rejected the proposal, while 21.9 percent said they had no opinion on the issue.
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