PRESIDENT Duterte will end his 6-year term as the most popular president of the post-EDSA I era, a latest PUBLiCUS survey showed.
In the PAHAYAG Second Quarter Survey (PQ2 2022) conducted by PUBLiCUS Asia Inc. from June 16 to 22, 2022, PUBLiCUS said 75 percent of respondents approved or strongly approved Duterte’s job performance during his six-year term.
Atty. Aureli Sinsuat, Executive Director of PUBLiCUS, said these numbers indicate that President Duterte will leave office as the most popular president of the post-EDSA I era.
“No other president who served under the 1987 Constitution has ended his or her term with majority approval and trust ratings, much less a supermajority of public support,” he said in a statement.
Moreover, 10 percent said they disapprove or strongly disapprove of the President’s performance since 2016, the PUBLiCUS added.
In the same survey, 69 percent of respondents rated their trust in Duterte as high or very high.
It added that only 11 percent said they put little or no trust in Duterte.
‘Most impactful’
Also, the survey quoted 75 percent of respondents saying the overall impact of the Duterte administration on national development was slightly or very positive—identical to the outgoing president’s total approval rating.
The survey said all the administrations apart from the Duterte administration registered total positive shares below the 30-percent mark.
PUBLiCUS said the second-highest positive impact rating among post-EDSA I administrations was notched by Duterte’s predecessor, the late President Benigno S. “PNoy” Aquino III.
It recalled that 27 percent of respondents said the Aquino III administration had a positive impact on the development of the Philippines. The administrations of Fidel Ramos, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Corazon Aquino, and Joseph Estrada have recorded positive impact ratings of 24 percent, 22 percent, 20 percent, and 14 percent, respectively.
“The data suggest that public sentiment on the policy achievements of the Duterte administration is exceptionally positive, especially in comparison to previous administrations,” Sinsuat said.
“Based on our numbers, we can expect President Duterte to retain an unprecedented amount of political capital for a former president when he leaves Malacañang on June 30. When private citizen Duterte speaks up on the issues, many will listen. When he endorses a candidate, many will vote for them,” Sinsuat added.
Sotto in second place
Also, the survey said Senate President Vicente Sotto III comes in at second place with his 45-percent total approval share and 16 percent disapproval rate.
Sotto is followed by Vice President Leni Robredo with a total approval rating of 37 percent. On the other hand, Robredo’s 37-percent disapproval rating is, by far, the highest among the top government officials.
In the House of Representatives, Speaker Lord Allan Velasco had an approval rating of 28 percent and disapproval score of 17 percent, while Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo recorded an approval share of 27 percent and a disapproval rating of 14 percent.
The PUBLiCUS said 1,500 registered Filipino voter respondents who participated in the survey were randomly sampled by PureSpectrum, a US-based panel marketplace with multinational presence, from their national panel of more than 200,000 Filipinos. The sample-wide margin of error is +/- 3 percent.
It also said that the samples provided by PureSpectrum are not affiliated with any bias or political party, saying all opinions voiced in the interpretation and analyses of the data are those of the writer and/or project sponsor.