Coloma: Low VP office rating result of Binay’s attacks vs admin

Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

The Office of the Vice President’s (OVP) plunging satisfaction rating in the recent executive outlook survey of the Makati Business Club (MBC) may be a result of Vice President Jejomar Binay’s continued attacks against the administration, a Palace official said on Friday.

Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma said it would be safe to say that the OVP’s poor showing in the MBC survey mirrored businessmen’s “negative feedback” toward Binay’s criticisms against the Aquino Cabinet, where he was previously a member of.

“On the observation that the Office of the Vice President is among those that registered the largest declines in satisfaction rating, it may be reasonable to infer that this represents the negative feedback of the business community on the Vice President’s criticisms against the administration in the aftermath of his resignation from the Cabinet,” Coloma said in a statement.

Out of 64 government agencies assessed, the OVP emerged as the worst-performing in MBC’s survey for the second semester of 2015, with a net satisfaction rating of -76.3. This was 31 notches lower than its ranking in last year’s poll.

Binay, the standard-bearer of the United Nationalist Alliance in the 2016 elections, resigned from the Aquino Cabinet in June and declared himself leader of the opposition.

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‘Renewed vote of confidence’

Coloma also thanked the Makati businessmen for their “renewed vote of confidence” to the government, particularly to departments and agencies concerned with economic and financial management.

He also cited government agencies which entered the top 10 list for their good performance—the Department of Foreign Affairs (4^th) for its “steadfast stand” on the West Philippine Sea, the state weather bureau (5^th) for its “accurate and reliable” forecasting, and the Civil Service Commission (10^th) for its “strong public service orientation.”

“The survey results mirror and affirm the vote of confidence extended by the international community to the country as reflected in successive upgrades in investment rating, as well as significant improvement in global competitiveness rankings,” Coloma said. Yuji Vincent Gonzales