April 1 - 15, 2017
PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY
Philippine President Rodrigo
Duterte maintains ‘very good’
satisfaction rating in new poll
President Rodrigo Duterte
has maintained a “very good”
net satisfaction rating among
Filipinos for the first quarter of
2017, according to the latest
survey of the Social Weather
Stations (SWS).
The poll, conducted from
March 25 to 28, showed
that Duterte received a net
satisfaction score of +63,
unchanged from December
last year.
In a statement, Presidential
spokesman Ernesto Abella
said Duterte was inspired by
the survey results.
“Although surveys are not
his priority, it inspires the Chief
Executive and the national
leadership to continue its top
agenda of ridding Philippine
society of drugs, criminality,
and corruption, or building
a trustworthy government;
prosperity for all; and peace
within our borders,” Abella
said.
“We value this public
trust, and will continue to
work hard to serve the best
interests of the people and
fulfill the vision of a nation
worthy of the Filipino people,”
he added.
In the survey, 75 percent
of respondents said they were
satisfied with the President’s
performance, 12 percent
were undecided and another
12 percent were dissatisfied.
The SWS noted that
Duterte’s overall score was
buoyed by the “excellent”
+87 rating he received from
Mindanao, his bailiwick.
The President, however,
suffered a significant decline of
nine points in Balance Luzon
to +51 in March from +60 in
December. He logged a “very
good” +62 in the Visayas and
+64 in Metro Manila.
Duterte also maintained
“very good” satisfaction ratings
across all socioeconomic
classes—a
+56
from
+52 among class ABC
respondents, +64 among
class D or the masa, and +60
from +61 in class E.
First published on the
BusinessWorld, the survey,
conducted through face-to-
face interviews among 1,200
adults, had error margins
of ±3 points for national
percentages, and ±6 percent
each for Balance Luzon,
Metro Manila, the Visayas and
Mindanao.
SWS
classifies
net
satisfaction ratings of at least
+70 as “excellent”; those
+50 to +69 as “very good”;
+30 to +49, “good”; +10 to
+29, “moderate”; +9 to -9,
“neutral”; -10 to -29, “poor”;
-30 to -49, “bad”; -50 to -
69, “very bad”; and -70 and
below, “execrable.”
Sought for comment,
Ramon C. Casiple, executive
director of the Institute for
Political and Electoral Reform,
attributed the significant
changes in Duterte’s net
satisfaction
ratings
in
Mindanao and Balance Luzon
to the seeming unequal
attention given by the
government to the two areas.
“The regions that got the
most attention are in Mindanao
while those who got the least
attention are in Luzon outside
Manila,” Casiple said in a text
message, even as he qualified
that the President’s net rating
was “still very high.”
“[The
survey
result]
follows normal curve as other
presidencies,” Mr. Casiple
also said of the survey, in
which Duterte’s latest rating
hovered in the +60 range
enjoyed by his predecessors
Corazon C. Aquino early in
1987, Fidel V. Ramos early in
1993, and Joseph E. Estrada
early in 1999.
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