BY DHEL NAZARIO
President Duterte continues to be the most trusted and approved top government official amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest Pulse Asia survey has found out.
In the nationwide survey conducted from Sept. 14 to 20 among 1,400 respondents, the President earned a 91 percent approval rating, followed by Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III at 84 percent, House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano at 70 percent, Vice President Leni Robredo at 57 percent, and Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta at 44 percent.
Duterte had a disapproval rating of five percent while five percent are undecided. Robredo has a 21 percent indecision rating and 22 percent disapproval rating. Ten percent are undecided with Sotto and had a six percent disapproval rating.
A six percent disapproval rating was also obtained by Cayetano with 19 percent undecided. Filipinos are most undecided about the work of the Chief Justice at 37 percent and had a disapproval rating of 13 percent.
Four officials obtained small to huge majority approval ratings. Only Peralta failed to get a majority approval score.
Pulse Asia said that most Filipinos are appreciative of the work done by four of the country’s leading government officials. It added that public assessment of the officials’ performance is “essentially unchanged” between December 2019 and September 2020.
