Out of a total of 2,943 respondents who answered the question “Do you think it was right for President Aquino to have attended the PSG Christmas party despite ‘Sendong’s’ onslaught”, majority (61.94 percent) said ‘yes’ while 38.06 percent replied ‘no’.
Netizens last week took to popular social networking sites to slam Aquino after learning through celebrity Valerie Concepcion’s tweets that he was present at his security aides’ Christmas party.
They criticized Aquino for celebrating the holidays while Sendong victims’ scrambled to search for missing family members.
But while many disapproved, there were also those who defended the president’s actions, saying that his being at the party was understandable.
Malacañang explained that Aquino did not linger at the party and merely attended the event to greet the members of the PSG and their families.
Sendong ravaged various areas in Northern Mindanao just days before Christmas, displacing thousands of families and killing more than a thousand persons in its wake.