Majority Of Filipinos Speaks: President Duterte Most Loving, Caring, Decisive PH Leader
President Rodrigo Duterte is the leading official in terms
of being most loving, caring, solid and decisive among the five highest
government executives in the country, according to a recent survey.
The results of the “Pahayag” pilot survey, conducted by the
Publicus Asia Inc., were revealed on Monday morning, August 28, at the Marco
Polo Hotel in Ortigas, Pasig City.
The survey tested the people’s perception on the top five
highest officials in the country, and the top five most recent presidents, in
terms of the “Love, Care and Solidarity” index, and the “Decisiveness Index.”
Based on the survey that studied 1,500 respondents from key
cities nationwide from August 7 to 9, President Duterte got 90 percent
decisiveness rating, followed by Vice President Leni Robredo with only 5
percent.
Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, Senate President
Aquilino Pimentel and Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez all got 1 percent.
Mindanao gave President Duterte a 97-percent decisiveness
rating while Robredo received only one percent from the region.
Those from the National Capital Region gave President Duterte
92 percent and Robredo only got 4 percent.
In Southern Luzon, where the vice president hails, Robredo
got a 4-percent decisiveness rating while President Duterte got 87 percent.
The survey has a 95 percent confidence level and ±2.58
percent margin of error.
President Duterte is deemed the most loving by the
respondents (82 percent); caring and concerned (79 percent).
Robredo only got 13 percent in terms of being loving,
concerned (17 percent) and caring (16 percent).
Pimentel comes third after 1 percent called him loving and
caring and 2 percent called him concerned.
Only 1 percent deemed Alvarez voted for him as caring, while
Sereno got zero percent when asked about her being caring, concerned and
loving.
President Duterte got 97-percent votes when it comes to the
love index in Mindanao, and 83 percent in the NCR; while 2 percent rated
Robredo as loving in Mindanao, and 12 percent in NCR.
Maria Lourdes Tiquia, CEO and founder of Publicus Asia said
some of the respondents might not be aware of the other politicians and their
roles.
“Maybe the results on President Duterte are glaring because
he is the top decision-maker. They might see his cursing (pagmumura) as a
reflection of his anger and exasperation.
According to the survey, the top indicator of an officials’
love for the country is his projects for the poor (56 percent); good services
(24 percent); delivery of promises to improve the country (18 percent);
outreach programs (14 percent) and the removal of value added tax (12 percent).
The respondents says a caring president is shown when he
visits the wounded and condoles during calamities (93 percent); takes into
account his capacity to serve sincerely, looks for ways to serve and takes care
of his health (92 percent) and respects the country’s symbols (91 percent).
Among the past presidents, Corazon Aquino had the highest
votes as loving leader (38 percent), followed by Estrada with 27 percent, Fidel
Ramos with 10 percent, Benigno Aquino III with 9 percent and now Congressman
Arroyo with 5 percent.
Corazon Aquino remains the most concerned with 33 percent,
Estrada (30 percent), Ramos (11 percent), Aquino III, (10 percent) and Arroyo
(5 percent).
In terms of awareness rating, President Duterte got a
perfect 100 percent, followed by Robredo with 87 percent,
Sereno with 45 percent, Pimentel with 69 percent and Alvarez with 49 percent.
The survey took only three days and results were released
after 11 days.
There are 300 respondents in each region: NCR, Northern and
Central Luzon, Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, and were asked structured
questions through face to face computer-aided personal interviews.
When it comes to approval rating, President Duterte got a
total of 88 percent, Robredo got 60 percent, Sereno got 51 percent, and
Pimentel got 66 percent while Alvarez got 57 percent.
“This survey tests the emotional quotient of the leaders. There
are leaders who are trained all their lives to be a leader but cannot connect
to the masses. We want to introduce EQ as a frame,” Tiquia said.
Pulso, she said, is more normative; ours is more affective.
“Filipino voters are very personal. It is high time to
introduce a new way of measuring leaders,” Tiquia said.
Tiquia emphasized that the group were not commissioned by
any group.
Their goal, she said, is to be able to come up with relevant
and timely results that can help decision makers, at the same time, show the
impact of the programs and issues to people.
For the respondents, the most pressing issue the president and the government have to solve
are lack of jobs (67 percent), education (63 percent), health care and economy
(46 percent), corruption (31 percent), terrorism (17 percent) and environment
(9 percent).
The president should least focus on politics, said eight
percent of the respondents.
To solve the country’s problems, 54 percent said the president should first do projects for the poor, fight criminality (29 percent)
and fight graft and corruption (23 percent).
Of all the respondents, 84 percent think they will have a
simple and comfortable life in the future, 13 percent a well-off life while
only 3 percent think of having a rich life.
For this period, Publicus Asia dealt with “key-button”
issues like the people’s perception on Federalism, Muslims and Islam, said
Lilibeth Amatong, cofounder of Publicus Asia.
The survey said 67 percent had not yet read, heard or
watched about federalism, the kind of government President Duterte has been
proposing even before the campaign period.
Of the 33 percent who were aware of federalism, only 22
percent said they understood the discussions on the proposal.
The respondents learned about federalism mostly through
television (89 percent), radio (35 percent) and newspapers (27 percent) and
social media (20 percent).
Majority of the respondents (69 percent) believed that
poverty is a result of the way the government allocates their resources, 26
percent disagreed while 4 percent said they did not know.
Under a possible federal government, 60 percent wanted to
directly vote for the president, 59 percent wanted a semi-presidential form of
governance where the president is the head of the state, while a prime minister
serves as the head of the government.
Meanwhile, 53 percent wanted the equal election of two
senators in each region of the federal government; while 40 percent wanted that
the vote for the president would also be a vote for the vice president.
In terms of transitioning to a federal form of government,
36 percent of the 1,500 respondents wanted it done immediately.
Of these, 55 percent hail from Mindanao, 36 percent from the
Visayas, 33 percent from NCR, 28 percent from northern and Central Luzon and
only 16 percent voted from Southern Luzon.
Only 3 percent did not want a shift to federalism, 66
percent wanted a shift during President Duterte’s term, 19 percent wanted
before 2022 or near the end of President Duterte’s term.
Amatong said the Pahayag poll is a breakthrough in terms of
surveying.
“We would like to show the public that it is possible to
conduct interviews and release survey results in a shorter time,” she said.
Normal conduct of surveys usually takes 30 days while
CAPI-assisted surveys would only take around 13 days.
Interviews are around 7 minutes only, said Jake Bergonia,
Publicus’ Management and Information System’s head.
“The next surveys will be conducted in the next few months
and would cover other pressing issues,” she added.
John Danao, CEO of the App Factory – Publicus’ partner, said
with the mobile-app of conducting surveys, connectivity is not really a
problem, as people can still interact with the application without internet
connection.
“Paper is clunky. We want speed,” he said, emphasizing that
security is also a feature of the mobile survey app.
Publicus developed the Vox Survey, its own mobile survey
application, and shifted from traditional pen and paper interviews to
computer-assisted personal interviewing or CAPI.
Vox, Publicus’ research arm, also uses the American
dial-based Perception analyzer, a tool for testing concepts, speeches, videos
and television and radio ads on focus groups.
The group, a full-service political management and lobbying
firm, started in 2003.
It had already conducted two national surveys on the
behavior of Filipino voters in 2009 and 2015.
Source: Inquirer
Majority Of Filipinos Speaks: President Duterte Most Loving, Caring, Decisive PH Leader
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