MANILA – Based on the results of a Pahayag 2022 first quarter survey conducted by PUBLiCUS Asia Inc., President Rodrigo Roa Duterte received higher approval and trust ratings just over two months before his term ends.
The March 30 to April 6 survey, issued Monday, indicated 67.2 percent of the 1,500 respondents saying they either “approve” or ‘”strongly approve” of Duterte’s performance as president over the past 12 months.
This number is 2.3 percentage points higher than Duterte’s 65 percent approval rating in the first quarter of 2021.
Duterte’s trustworthiness was rated “high” or “very high” by 61.2 percent of respondents, an increase of 6.2 percentage points from his trust rating of 55 percent in the same period last year.
For the first quarter of 2022, his disapproval rating was 15.2 percent and his low trust rating was 16.6 percent.
According to PUBLiCUS Executive Director Aureli Sinsuat, Duterte is on pace to become the first president in recent history to end his term with approval and trust ratings above 50 percent, a “rarity” in Philippine presidential politics.
The approval rating for Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo, on the other hand, was at 32.3 percent, which is 3.3 percentage points higher than her 29 percent approval rating in the first quarter of 2021.
From 18.7 percent, her trust rating increased by 8.5 percentage points to 27.2 percent.
Among the top five government officials, she also had the highest total disapproval and total low trust ratings.
Based on the survey, 42.2 percent of respondents “disapprove” or “strongly disapprove” of Robredo’s performance during the past year, while 48.2 percent have “no trust” or “low trust” in the vice president.
Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III’s approval rating was at 38 percent, House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco’s was at 23.8 percent, and Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo’s was at 23.7 percent.
Their trust ratings were at 25.3, 14.6, and 14.4 percent, respectively.
PUBLiCUS said the 1,500 respondents who participated in the survey were randomly drawn by the Singapore office of American firm PureSpectrum from its market research panel of over 200,000 Filipinos.
The final survey panel was restricted to registered voters.
