Palace to Binay: Check out Aquino’s numbers

Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

Check out the latest public opinion surveys—which indicate that “public satisfaction with the Aquino administration is higher than with any administration since 1986.”

This was Malacañang’s retort to Vice President Jejomar Binay who had said Monday the Aquino administration would be known as a period of “missed opportunities and unfulfilled promises.”

Presidential Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma yesterday noted that “despite criticism from detractors, the administration’s performance the past five years has been deemed satisfactory by a majority of our bosses—the Filipino people.”

In a text message to the Inquirer, Coloma, also the head of the Presidential Communications Operations Office, said President Aquino’s “trustworthiness as a leader with integrity has been affirmed consistently.”

Speaking at a business forum in a Pasay City hotel on Monday, Binay assailed the Aquino administration, saying it had “promised much, unfortunately, it delivered very little.”

He called the administration a paradox. “We posted a rather respectable GDP growth rate but our poverty rate has worsened rather than improved.”

“The Aquino years may be most accurately described as a period of lost opportunities,” he said.

Palace sources called Binay’s attack on the President “vicious” and “unethical.”