Pulse Asia: 50% disagree, 28% agree with impeachment case vs. Sara Duterte

Half of Filipino registered voters disagree with the filing of an impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte, Pulse Asia’s latest Pulso ng Bayan survey showed.

According to the report on the survey conducted from May 6 to 9 nationwide among 1,200 registered voters, 28% agree with the filing of the impeachment case by the House of Representatives.

As the impeachment trial has yet to start, Pulse Asia said there were no new reports on the allegations against the vice president. Hence, it reflected on the latest survey figures. 

It said that Duterte’s approval and trust ratings dipped in September and in December last year during the height of the House hearing on her office’s alleged confidential funds. 

“Nawala sa balita kumbaga ‘yung mga akusasyon tungkol sa maling paggamit ng confidential funds, ‘yung kanyang pag-threaten sa presidente,” said Pulse Asia president Ronald Holmes in Maki Pulido’s report in “24 Oras” on Tuesday. 

(The accusations about the misuse of confidential funds, her threat to the president, seemed to have disappeared from the news.)

But Holmes said the public’s perception on the vice president’s impeachment could still change soon, depending on the evidence to be presented during the trial.

“Magbabago ‘yung opinyon na ‘yan depende doon sa paglilitis na hindi pa nagsisimula,” he added.

(That opinion will change depending on the trial that has not yet begun.)

Likewise, ML Party-list representative-elect Leila de Lima, who will sit as one of the House prosecutors, said that the public’s true opinion on the issue will be revealed during the trial.

“Lalo nga naming gagawing seryoso ‘yung aming trabaho…kasi nga, ang nakikita namin na kailangan na kailangan talaga makumbinsi ‘yung publiko,” she said.

(We will take our work even more seriously...because what we see is that we really need to convince the public.)

The survey had an overall margin of error of ±2.8 percentage points.

A copy of the report on the results has been posted on Pulse Asia's website.

Twenty-one percent could not say if they agreed or disagreed.

Those who disagreed with the filing of the impeachment case went down by one percentage point from 51% in March to 50% in May.

Those who agreed went up by 10 percentage points from 18% in March to 28% in May.

Those who could not say whether they agreed or disagreed went down by four percentage points from 25% in March to 21% in May. –NB, GMA Integrated News