Trillanes slams Duterte’s ‘very good’ net satisfaction rating in Q4 of 2018

FILE: Senator Antonio Trillanes IV (Photo: Senate of the Philippines/Facebook)

Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Saturday, December 29, slammed the recent survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS), showing that majority of Filipinos remained satisfied with President Rodrigo Duterte’s performance as the country’s chief executive.

“Sa hirap ng buhay ngayon at sa kaliwa’t kanang kapalpakan ni Duterte ay walang maniniwala sa SWS survey na 7 out of 10 Filipinos ay masaya sa pamamahala nito (Due to the high cost of living today and Duterte’s failures, no one will believe the SWS survey that seven out of 10 Filipinos are happy with his leadership),” Trillanes said in a statement.

“Either may sampling errors ito o ‘di kaya ay ang mga nagsabi nito ay nakakaramdam ng takot (Either the survey has sampling errors or the survey respondents are feeling afraid),” he added.

In the Fourth Quarter 2018 Social Weather Survey, done from December 16-19 this year, the pollster found that 74 percent of adult Filipinos were satisfied with Duterte’s performance, while 15 percent were dissatisfied and 11 percent were undecided.

This brings Duterte’s net satisfaction rating to +60, classified by SWS as “very good.” This latest figure increased by six points from the “very good” +54 in September 2018.

The six-point rise in Duterte’s net satisfaction rating, the SWS noted, was due to increases in Metro Manila at 22 points, Visayas at 13 points, Balance Luzon at three points, combined with a four-point decline in Mindanao.

Urban net satisfaction with the Chief Executive also rose from “good” to “very good,” at +54, while rural net satisfaction remained “very good,” at +57.

In conducting the survey, the SWS used face-to-face interviews to its 1,440 respondents, whose age ranging from 18 years old and above, nationwide. It has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 2.6 percent for national percentages and plus or minus five percent for Balance Luzon, Metro Manila, Visayas, and Mindanao.

On Friday, Malacañang lauded the result of the SWS survey, saying that it only “puts a lie to critics and detractors” of the Duterte administration.

“The support of the Filipinos for our Chief Executive also sends a strong message to foreign human rights groups and foreign governments to put a stop to their baseless and unkind accusations on his war on drugs,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said.

“In addition, the survey result is a slap on their faces for their outrageous intrusion on the sovereignty of our country,” it added.

The Palace official then thanked the Filipino people for their continued support for Duterte, adding that it motivates them to work harder and serve the public better.