Vice President Leni Robredo and Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III received “good” ratings for their performance in the second quarter of 2017, an improvement from their “moderate” marks in the first quarter of the year, based on the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey results.
The Second Quarter 2017 Social Weather Survey, conducted among 1,200 adults, showed the vice president recovering from her double digit drop in the past quarter, with 60 percent of Filipinos saying that they are satisfied with Robredo’s performance and 24 percent dissatisfied.
Robredo’s net satisfaction of +36 recovered 10 points from her +26 in March.
Robredo welcomed her high majority approval on Monday.
“We are grateful for and humbled by the continued trust given us by our fellow Filipinos as shown by the higher ratings in the recent Pulse Asia survey,” Robredo said.
Some 53 percent of Filipinos meanwhile, said that they were satisfied with Pimentel’s performance and 20 percent dissatisfied, bringing his net satisfaction up to +33, an increase of by 4 points from June.
The net satisfation rating of two other top government officials stayed at “moderate,” the survey showed.
House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez’s net satisfaction rating is at +16 in June, up by four points from +12 (37 percent satisfied, 25 percent dissatisfied) in March.
Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno’s net satisfaction rating went up by seven points to +21 in June from +14 (37 percent satisfied, 23 percent dissatisfied) in March.
The latest survey, conducted from June 23 to 26, has sampling error margins of ±3 percent for national percentages.
Meanwhile, despite his declaration of martial law in Mindanao, President Rodrigo Duterte continued to enjoy the trust and approval of most Filipinos in the latest Pulse Asia survey released Monday.
In Pulse Asia’s June 2017 survey conducted among 1,200 adult respondents, Duterte received an approval score of 82 percent and a trust rating of 81 percent.
The poll was taken a month after Duterte declared martiawl law in Mindanao following the clashes in Marawi City between the military and Muslim extremists.
His declaration was challenged before the Supreme Court but the high tribunal upheld its legality.
However, the disapproval ratings of the country’s top officials varied, from 5 percent for Duterte to 17 percent for Robredo.
Ambivalence toward their performance was most marked toward House Speaker Alvarez at 38 percent and least manifest in the case of Duterte at 13 percent.
Both Duterte and Pimentel obtained majority approval figures across all geographic areas (75 percent to 95 percent and 54 percent to 71 percent, respectively) and socio-economic classes (79 percent to 84 percent and 60 percent to 62 percent, respectively).
Robredo had majority approval ratings in most geographic areas and socio-economic groupings (60 percent to 66 percent and 60 percent to 72 percent, respectively), with Metro Manila and Class ABC being the exceptions (both at 44 percent).
More than half of those polled expressed trust in the Senate (57 percent), the House of Representatives (52 percent) and the Supreme Court (56 percent)