File photo of Vice President Jejomar Binay. INQUIRER/JOAN BONDOC
After slipping four times in past surveys, Vice President Jejomar Binay’s net satisfaction rating rose by 11 points to +42 in June this year, the latest Social Weather Stations poll showed.
The non-commissioned survey, conducted from June 5 to 8 among 1,200 Filipino adults, asked respondents if they were satisfied with the work of Binay, Senate President Franklin Drilon, House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. and Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno.
From a peak of an “excellent” +73 in March last year, Binay’s net satisfaction fell repeatedly in the last several months until reaching its all-time low of +31 in March this year. It rose to +42 this month with 64 percent of respondents (from 58 percent) saying they were satisfied with his work, 22 percent (from 28 percent) saying they were dissatisfied and 13 percent undecided.
Under the SWS terminology, +70 and above means “excellent;” +50 to +69, “very good;” +30 to +49, “good;” +10 to +29, “moderate;” +9 to -9, “neutral;” -10 to -29, “poor;” -30 to -49, “bad;” -50 to -69, “very bad;” -70 and below, “execrable.”
Sereno received a slight increase with a net satisfaction rating of +11 (from +10 in March). The latest poll showed that 37 percent were satisfied with her work, 25 percent dissatisfied and 28 percent ambivalent.
On the other hand, the two legislators’ ratings fell. Drilon’s net satisfaction rating was down to +29 in June (52 percent satisfied, 24 percent dissatisfied and 22 percent undecided) from +35 in March.
Belmonte also suffered a three point drop with +9 net satisfaction rating (37 percent satisfied, 28 percent dissatisfied, 29 percent undecided) in June, from +12 in March.
The survey was first published in BusinessWorld.