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Romualdez posts gains in senatorial bet’s poll

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House Independent Bloc leader and Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez whose advocacy is centered on the return of “malasakit” (compassion) to public service was one of the four gainers in the latest voter preference ratings for senators of Pulse Asia survey.

Romualdez, a lawyer and president of the Philippine Constitution Association, got a +2.9 percent increase in his rating based on the Feb. 15 to 20 Pulse Asia survey.

House Independent Bloc leader and Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez

Romualdez, who ran unopposed in the last polls and a former chair of the House committee on ethics and privileges, is now a bit closer to the so-called ‘Magic 12’ with his 15th to 18th rankings compared to his previous 19th to 20th places.

The Leyte opposition leader, a three-term congressman who is running for the Senate under a platform anchored on compassionate governance, is also one of the most shared senatorial candidates of various presidential bets.

Romualdez is a shared senatorial candidate of Vice President Jejomar Binay, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago, who are both running for president.

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Romualdez has been endorsed by the 40-man Party-list Coalition Foundation Inc. and named by stalwarts of the Nationalist People’s Coalition, the country’s second-largest political party, as one of the 12 senatorial bets to be endorsed by them.

Even former President-turned-Manila City Mayor Joseph Estrada had endorsed Romualdez, whose key platform is focus on improving jobs, health, education, agriculture and disaster preparedness.

Apart from Romualdez, the three other gainers include former Technical Education and Skills Development Authority Director-General Sec. Joel Villanueva, Valenzuela City Rep. Win Gatchalian, and former Metro Manila Development Authority chairman Francis Tolentino.

Meanwhile, boxing icon and Sarangani Rep. Emmanuel Pacquiao suffered a serious blow after his controversial statements against same-sex marriage and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, with   a drop of -12.1 percentage points to  11th to 14th places from his previous 8th to 10th ranking.

The Pulse Asia survey, conducted last Feb. 15-20 with 1,800 respondents, also showed that all other candidates in the winning circle suffered a decline in their ratings even the frontrunner Senator Vicente Sotto III with -5.2 percentage points.

The following are the senatorial candidates and the percentage points they lost in their voting preference ratings: former Senator Francis Pangilinan, -11.5 percent, Senator Sergio Osmeña III, -11.1 percent; Edu Manzano, -7.4 percent; Senator Ralph Recto, -6.5 percent; Senate President Franklin Drilon, -6.4 percent, former Senator Miguel Zubiri, -6.4 percent; former Senator Richard Gordon, -6 percent; Mark Lapid, -5.7 percent; Isko Moreno, -5.3 percent; former Akbayan party-list Rep. Risa Hontiveros, -4.9 percent; Senator Teofisto Guingona III, -4.7 percent; and Bayan Muna party-list Neri Colmenares, -4.3 percent. 

  

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