Senate President Franklin Drilon. FILE PHOTO
While “elated” and “humbled” by a recent survey showing rising public satisfaction with his work, Senate President Franklin Drilon said he was bracing for a new wave of negative propaganda against him and the chamber.
From a moderate +28 percent in December, 2014, Drilon’s net satisfaction rating rose to a good +35 percent in the Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey conducted from March 20 to 23, 2015. Based on the survey, it is the rise is the highest among the country’s top officials.
“I am elated and humbled by the results of the latest SWS survey showing a renewed people’s trust and confidence to my office in the past months,” the Senate leader said in a statement on Monday.
“I know that there is no better and more apt way to show to the Filipino people that I value and deserve their trust, than by working even harder, and fulfilling my duties to the Senate with greater zeal,” he said.
Drilon said that he would continue “to listen to the voice and will of the people,” which have always guided him in every decision he makes as a senator, and as a public servant.
The Senate President also topped the recent Pulse Asia survey, which gave him a near majority public approval rating of 49%, higher than his 47% approval rating last November 2014.
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However, Drilon said, public appreciation with his work might not sit well with his political opponents. According to him, these always attack him whenever he rises in the surveys.
He said: “I expect a renewed wave of negative propaganda against me and the Senate, especially in social media. The public should be more vigilant and discerning.”
Such attacks, he said, are not new or original, and that he was certain “that the public knows better than to entertain lies.”
The SWS also recorded an increase in the net satisfaction rating of the Senate as an institution from a moderate +26 in December 2014 to a good +31 this March.
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