All branches of gov’t slip in June SWS poll

The Senate was the only government institution that scored a “good” satisfaction rating despite suffering a 4-point drop in the second quarter of 2018, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said in a poll.

The June 2018 survey also showed public satisfaction ratings of the Supreme Court (SC), Senate, and President Duterte’s Cabinet continue to drop in the same period.

According to the poll, 57 percent were satisfied while 17 percent were dissatisfied with the Senate’s performance, setting a “good” +41 rating in the second quarter — four points down from the its first quarter “good” +45 mark.

This was the Senate’s lowest rating since the similar good +41 during 2016’s second quarter.

For its part, the Lower House suffered the biggest decline with a 10-point drop from “good” +35 in March to “moderate” +25 in June this year.

This was the House’s lowest satisfaction rating since the “moderate” +16 in 2015’s fourth quarter.

Meanwhile, satisfaction ratings for both the SC and the Cabinet stayed “moderate” at +19 and +25, respectively.

The SC’s rating barely moved from its first quarter rating of +20 but slipped to +19 in June.

This is the lowest net satisfaction rating of the High Court in six years since the moderate +13 in May 2012.

The satisfaction rating for President Duterte’s Cabinet, meanwhile, dropped three points from +28 in March 2018 to +25 in June 2018.

The survey was conducted from June 27 to 30, 2018 using face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adults nationwide with a ±3 percent margin of error for national percentages and ±6% each for Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. /cbb