Marcos: Survey ‘manipulation’ prelude to poll cheating

Senator Bongbong Marcos questioned the conduct of surveys during the Kapihan sa Senado, Thursday, May 5, 2016, saying that surveys give a glimpse of the public’s sentiment at a certain period. Marcos referred to two Pulse Asia surveys, the first of which was conducted from April 19-24 and showed him leading with 31 percent, and the second, from April 26-29, showing him dropping to second place. PRIB Photo by Alex Nuevaespaña

Vice presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. accused the administration on Thursday of trying to manipulate the surveys in favor of its candidates, probably the first step, he said, to cheat in the elections.

Marcos specifically questioned the sudden change in pre-election surveys in the last two weeks before the May 9 elections, noting how he lost six to 11 points.

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“Hindi mawawala yang kaba na yan dahil nakakabahala itong ginagawang trending sa mga survey, at biglang bigla nagbago ang mga numero. Nag settle down na. Kung maaalala ninyo, halos dahan-dahan ang galaw ng numero, bigla in the last week, 11 point ang nawawala sa akin, six points ang nawawala. Ang katumabas ng six percent, is three million votes,” he said during a regular forum in the Senate.

“Yung isang survey, I lost 11 points in two weeks, ang katumbas nyan ay almost six million votes so in two weeks, tinanggalan ako ng six million votes. E pano naman nangyari yun, e wala namang nangyari, wala namang malaking issue na pumutok. In fact, in the last two weeks, ang mga nangyari imbes na iniiwan na ako ng mga supporters ko, mas dumami.”

Marcos then cited as example the support that he said he received from five big provinces around the country.

“This is clearly an attempt to trend, niloloko nila ang tao sa pamamagitan ng mga survey na iba, hindi kapani-paniwala yung mga kanilang numero,” he said.

“Ang problema ay baka ito ay ang unang hakbang sa pandaraya. Ang pandaraya kaunti lang ang pwedeng idaya na boto, one percent lang, one and half percent kaya’t kapag masyadong malayo ang matatalong kandidato, na idadayang kandidato, ang ginagawa inilalapit sa survey para pag naidaya na nila yung one percent or one and half…sasabihin e malapit namn e e kaya likely naman,” he pointed out.

Marcos said the alleged attempt trending in the surveys was not limited to the vice presidential polls but also being done in the presidential surveys.

“Even in the presidential survey. I’ve not seen any survey, internal, external, sarili namin na nalampsan ni Roxas si Poe. Never. wala pa akong nakitang survey na lumampas si Roxas kay Poe,” he said.

He was referring to Senator Grace Poe and former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, who are now in a statistical tie for second place in the latest ABS CBN-Pulse Asia survey.

“All the other surveys that have come in the past weeks ganito ang takbo. Biglang bumaligtad yung trend bakit nangyari yun? Ano bang nangyari? I don’t understand. Nothing has happened that would explain it so mahirap maipaliwanag so sana maipaliwanag kung sino, kung bakit nagkakaganyan,” Marcos said.

“It would take a very large and important event for the change in trend in those numbers, 11 percent? 5 and half million votes? Something big has to have happened. I don’t remember anything big happening in the past two weeks.”

“Maliwanag na maliwanag that there’s an attempt to trend in favor of the administration,” Marcos added.

Asked who could be behind the alleged trending, Marcos said: “The administration is the only one who can do that, clearly is the beneficiary…”

Marcos said nobody but the administration candidates are going up in the surveys.

“Yung mga nangunguna, pinababagsak nila nang malaki. That seems to be a clear indicator of what’s happening,” he further said.

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