By Israel Insider staff and partners March 3, 2005
A poll conducted for Haaretz on Sharon's fourth anniversary as prime minister found that 62% of respondents chose the quality "corruption" to characterize the prime minister.
Only 48.6% of the public believes that Sharon initiated the disengagement based on "considerations of the good of the state," but the rest were split on which self-interested motivation affected his decision: 12.2% of the public believe the disengagement derived from Sharon's political situation, while 12.4% think the real reason for Sharon's conceiving the disengagement plan were legal investigations of Sharon and his sons.
Some of the response apparently derived from political outlook. Although 84 percent of Yahad-Meretz voters described Sharon as corrupt, none of the Meretz voters - 0 percent - thought the investigations are the reason for the disengagement initiative.
In contrast, 32.5 percent of the right-wing voters -- the National Religious Party and the National Union -- said the legal investigations were the reason that Sharon initiated the Gaza pullout plan.
The poll was conducted by Dialog, supervised by Professor Camille Fuchs.
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