Former Prime Minister and SDL Leader Laisenia Qarase has questioned the credibility of the figures released by the National Council for Building a Better Fiji which said that 92.5 percent of the people consulted support the draft People's Charter.
Qarase has also questioned the methods used to get the people to support the draft Charter.
Qarase said a secret ballot should have been conducted rather than asking people to put their names on the response forms.
The NCBBF said they have consulted a total of 418,855 people up to this Monday, which represents 78.5 percent of the adult population.
Of this number, a total of 367,183 people provided their feedback by completing the Response Forms and of this a total of 339,497 or 92.5% affirmed their support for the draft People's Charter.
10,798 people or 3% of those completing the Response forms also expressed support for the Draft Charter but subject to certain changes being incorporated. Those not supporting the draft Peoples Charter totaled 12,965 representing 4 percent of the respondents.
The last NCBBF meeting is currently underway.
Credibility Of NCBBF Figures Questioned
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