Vice President Jejomar Binay: Trumping the President. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines—The satisfaction rating of top government officials improved between March and June, with Vice President Jejomar Binay trumping even President Aquino, the Second Quarter 2013 Social Weather Report showed.
After a slump in satisfaction in March, Binay bounced back this month, matching levels he last posted in August 2012.
The Vice President scored a +76 net satisfaction rating in the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey, and a +78 percent approval rating in the latest Pulse Asia survey, an improvement from his +62 SWS rating in March this year.
The SWS and Pulse Asia surveys separately polled some 1,200 Filipinos from across the country.
Conducted from June 28 to June 30 and first reported in BusinessWorld, the SWS survey found Binay’s net satisfaction rating back to an “excellent” +76 (83 percent satisfied, 7 percent dissatisfied), his best rating since he assumed office in 2010. He got the same rating in August 2012 (82 percent satisfied, 6 percent dissatisfied).
Last week, the SWS said President Aquino’s net satisfaction rating had improved to a “very good” +64 (76 percent satisfied, 12 percent dissatisfied), from his +59 rating in March (74 percent satisfied, 15 percent dissatisfied).
Former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile scored a “good” +38 (56 percent satisfied, 18 percent dissatisfied), up from his previous “good” rating of +30 in March (53 percent satisfied, 24 percent dissatisfied).
Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr.’s rating of a “moderate” +16 (36 percent satisfied, 20 percent dissatisfied) was an improvement over his previous rating of a “moderate” +11 in March (37 percent satisfied, 25 percent dissatisfied).
Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno’s net satisfaction rating likewise improved to a “moderate” +13 (33 percent satisfied, 20 percent dissatisfied), from a “neutral” +9 in March (33 percent satisfied, 23 percent dissatisfied).
The survey, which used face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adult respondents, had a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3 percentage points.—Tarra Quismundo; Inquirer Research