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Pulse Asia presidential poll: VP Binay still top choice, Duterte debuts at 3rd
By ANDREO CALONZO, GMA News
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(Updated 4:08 a.m., March 18, 2015) Vice President Jejomar Binay is still the top choice for the country’s next president with over a year before the 2016 national polls, a Pulse Asia poll revealed Tuesday.
The survey showed the number of respondents who favored Binay slightly rose to 29 percent this month from 26 percent last November.
Senator Grace Poe remains to be Binay’s closest rival for the presidency, with 14 percent of the respondents naming her as their presidential pick. This figure is slightly lower than Poe’s 18 percent four months ago.
Meanwhile, In his first time to be included in the Pulse Asia presidential survey, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte ranked third with 12 percent, tied with Manila Mayor and former President Joseph Estrada.
Based on the Pulse Asia survey results, Duterte was the top presidential pick for respondents from Mindanao.
Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago, who was in third place during the past presidential survey, fell to fourth place, securing the nod of 9 percent of the respondents from a previous 12 percent.
Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., meanwhile, rose from seventh place last survey to fifth place this month. He got the approval of 6 percent of the respondents from last November’s 4 percent.
The administration’s presumptive candidate, Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, is still in sixth place, tied with Senator Francis Escudero with 4 percent.
Other politicians included in the presidential poll were Senator Alan Peter Cayetano (3 percent), Senator Antonio Trillanes IV (2 percent), former Senators Panfilo Lacson and Richard Gordon (both with 1 percent).
The Pulse Asia poll has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3 percent.
Vice-presidential poll
Poe, meanwhile, continued to be the top choice for the next vice president, based on Pulse Asia’s survey conducted this month. She got a 29-percent rating in the March, lower than her 33-percent rating last November.
Escudero (16 percent) and Cayetano (13 percent) were also steady at second and third place, respectively, although they both got slightly lower ratings compared to last November’s poll.
Duterte, who debuted in fourth place in the vice-presidential poll, chipped away other possible candidates’ ratings, getting 11 percent in the latest Pulse Asia poll. He was tied with Senator Marcos.
Trillanes, meanwhile, was the biggest loser in the vice-presidential poll, dropping to sixth place (6 percent) from last survey’s fourth place (8 percent).
Other politicians included in the vice-presidential poll were:
-- detained Senator Jinggoy Estrada (4 percent),
-- Senate President Franklin Drilon (3 percent),
-- detained Senator Ramon Bong Revilla Jr. (2 percent) and
-- Camarines Sur Rep. Leni Robredo (0.4 percent)
Senatorial picks
Although some of them swapped rankings, the top 12 senatorial choices for the 2016 polls remained unchanged compared to the Pulse Asia survey last November.
They are: Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III, Lacson, Marcos, former Senator Francis Pangilinan, Drilon, Senator Ralph Recto, former Senator Miguel Zubiri, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, Senator Sergio Osmeña, Gordon, former Akbayan Rep. Risa Hontiveros and former Senator Jamby Madrigal. — RSJ/KBK/DVM, GMA News
Based on the Pulse Asia survey results, Duterte was the top presidential pick for respondents from Mindanao.
Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago, who was in third place during the past presidential survey, fell to fourth place, securing the nod of 9 percent of the respondents from a previous 12 percent.
Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., meanwhile, rose from seventh place last survey to fifth place this month. He got the approval of 6 percent of the respondents from last November’s 4 percent.
The administration’s presumptive candidate, Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, is still in sixth place, tied with Senator Francis Escudero with 4 percent.
Other politicians included in the presidential poll were Senator Alan Peter Cayetano (3 percent), Senator Antonio Trillanes IV (2 percent), former Senators Panfilo Lacson and Richard Gordon (both with 1 percent).
The Pulse Asia poll has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3 percent.
LP not worried
Although Roxas continued to lag behind other candidates in the presidential poll, officials of the ruling Liberal Party (LP) were unfazed by the survey results.
“Magwo-worry lang kami kung nangangampanya na siya and mababa ang ratings. Matagal pa naman ang period of reckoning,” Caloocan Rep. Edgar Erice, LP chairman for political affairs, said in a television interview.
Erice further said that based on an LP-commissioned survey last month, Poe and Binay were tied at first, while Roxas got 7 percent.
Western Samar Rep. Mel Sarmiento, LP secretary-general, meanwhile said Roxas had yet to declare his intention to join the 2016 presidential race.
“Mahirap natin pahirapan si Sec. Mar sa kung ano ang balak niya sa politika. Marami ang may gusto sa kanya, anuman ang sabihin laban sa kanya,” Sarmiento said in a separate interview.
Navotas Rep. Toby Tiangco, interim president of the opposition United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), meanwhile thanked the public for its continued support for Binay.
“Ang numerong pinakamahalaga sa amin ay iyong numero ng tao na natutulungan ni VP Binay araw-araw. Ang ginagawa namin is to support the programs of the vice president, to find ways kung paano makakatulong sa prayoridad niya,” Tiangco said.
Vice-presidential poll
Poe, meanwhile, continued to be the top choice for the next vice president, based on Pulse Asia’s survey conducted this month. She got a 29-percent rating in the March, lower than her 33-percent rating last November.
Escudero (16 percent) and Cayetano (13 percent) were also steady at second and third place, respectively, although they both got slightly lower ratings compared to last November’s poll.
Duterte, who debuted in fourth place in the vice-presidential poll, chipped away other possible candidates’ ratings, getting 11 percent in the latest Pulse Asia poll. He was tied with Senator Marcos.
Trillanes, meanwhile, was the biggest loser in the vice-presidential poll, dropping to sixth place (6 percent) from last survey’s fourth place (8 percent).
Other politicians included in the vice-presidential poll were:
-- detained Senator Jinggoy Estrada (4 percent),
-- Senate President Franklin Drilon (3 percent),
-- detained Senator Ramon Bong Revilla Jr. (2 percent) and
-- Camarines Sur Rep. Leni Robredo (0.4 percent)
Senatorial picks
Although some of them swapped rankings, the top 12 senatorial choices for the 2016 polls remained unchanged compared to the Pulse Asia survey last November.
They are: Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III, Lacson, Marcos, former Senator Francis Pangilinan, Drilon, Senator Ralph Recto, former Senator Miguel Zubiri, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, Senator Sergio Osmeña, Gordon, former Akbayan Rep. Risa Hontiveros and former Senator Jamby Madrigal. — RSJ/KBK/DVM, GMA News
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