‘We’re not going to be paralayzed by any survey’ – Palace

President Benigno S. Aquino III shares a light moment with Ayala Corporation chairman and chief executive officer Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala and Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima during the courtesy call of the ASEAN Business Club at the Reception Hall of the Malacañan Palace on Wednesday (May 21, 2014). The ASEAN Business Club is an association of the chief executives of ASEAN’s most important business enterprises, who are committed to the advancement of the ASEAN agenda. (Photo by Benhur Arcayan / Malacañang Photo Bureau)

MANILA — Shunning away the president’s poor satisfaction ratings, Malacanang on Monday remained firm on its belief that surveys will not affect the power of President Aquino’s endorsement in the 2016 elections.

“Everyone wants his anointment,” Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said in a press briefing.

Vice President Jejomar Binay, who has earlier expressed his plans of running for president in the 2016 elections also said that he was open to talks on coalition between his party, United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) and the administration’s Liberal Party (LP).

Lacierda remains confident that the surveys will not affect the strength of PNoy’s endorsements in the coming elections, despite the president’s poor rating performance in the results of a recent survey conducted from June 27 to 30 and published in the Business World.

The survey showed that 26 percent of the respondents were dissatisfied with the government’s performance while 18 percent were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied.

“Is it insurmountable? No, of course not,” he said. “We’re not going to be paralyzed by any survey. Our commitment is there to protect the welfare of the Filipino people,” Lacierda said.