Seven out of every 10 adult Filipinos approve of the performance of President Benigno Aquino III and Vice President Jejomar Binay and about the same number trust the country’s two top officials, the results of Pulse Asia’s latest survey show. The ratings were basically unchanged from what they were between January and February.
Ang Kapatiran Party senatorial candidate John Carlos de los Reyes slammed the polling firms Pulse Asia and Social Weather Stations on Thursday, accusing them of conditioning the minds of voters and promoting what he called “sabong mentality” (making rivalries out of innocent people) among Filipinos.
Grace Poe-Llamanzares’ decision to exclusively campaign with Team PNoy proved to be the right decision as she moved up in the latest Social Weather Station poll, a week after being junked by the opposition United Nationalist Alliance, a spokesperson for the administration coalition said on Tuesday.
The biggest winner in the latest Pulse Asia survey arguably was the daughter of Vice President Jejomar Binay. Riding primarily on the popularity of her high-profile father, Nancy Binay jumped to fourth to ninth places, trailing only incumbent Senators Loren Legarda, Francis Escudero and Alan Peter Cayetano. She was 12th in the Social Weather Stations survey last January.
Unemployment in the country dropped from an estimate of 13.8 million individuals in the first quarter to 10.9 million individuals in the second quarter, according to a recent survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS).
Claiming the poorest of the poor were left out of regular surveys on poverty, an aide to President Benigno Aquino on Saturday said the country’s polling companies should do a survey among beneficiaries of the government’s conditional cash transfer program to determine if it has improved the lives of the poor.
Malacañang on Thursday said that President Benigno Aquino’s high trust and satisfaction ratings show that the public is feeling the effects of the administration’s programs against poverty and corruption.
Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano has downplayed the role of surveys in the outcome of the upcoming impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona.
Unlike President Benigno Aquino III whose public satisfaction ratings increased, other top government officials, including Vice President Jejomar Binay, saw their ratings drop slightly in the third quarter, according to the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey. Based on the SWS’ 3rd Quarter Social Weather survey, conducted between September 4 and 7, Binay’s ratings decreased [...]
The administration’s measures against corruption and poverty are being felt by Filipinos, Malacañang said Thursday in reaction to the most recent Pulse Asia survey showing improvements in President Aquino’s approval and trust ratings.
Despite a decrease of three percentage points from March to June in Pulse Asia’s Ulat ng Bayan survey, President Aquino’s public satisfaction rating remains at “near-historical highs,” the president’s spokesman said Wednesday.
