Taguig City Mayor Lino Cayetano was among five Metro Manila mayors who scored the highest approval ratings from their constituents for their response to the COVID-19 pandemic, an independent non-commissioned tracking survey said.
Cayetano was in fifth place with a 68 percent rating from Taguig residents interviewed for the COVID-19 Online Panel Survey of PUBLiCUS Asia in partnership with Kantar from May 5 to 8.
The Taguig residents were among the 1,000 Metro Manila residents aged 18 to 70 survey respondents who were asked to indicate their level of approval or disapproval of the manner in which their mayors and city governments were responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mayors Rex Gatchalian of Valenzuela City, Vico Sotto of Pasig City, Isko Moreno of Manila, and Marcy Teodoro of Marikina City are the others in the Top 5.
The survey said 22.22 percent strongly approve of Cayetano’s performance while 46.03 percent expressed approval.
Those who neither approved nor disapproved and disapproved were at 14.29 percent each while those who strongly disapproved were at a meager 3.17 percent.
“The best case practices employed by these high-performing local chief executives and city governments should be studied and emulated by other LGUs and government institutions working to beat COVID-19,” Aureli Sinsuat, PUBLiCUS executive director and spokesperson, said.
