Marcos trust, performance ratings now higher than Sara’s – OCTA survey

TRUST and performance ratings of President Marcos Jr. slightly improved while those of Vice President Sara Duterte slightly dropped, based on the June 30 to July 5 survey of OCTA Research from

The President had the highest trust rating, 71 percent, among the country’s top five officials while Duterte had the highest distrust rating, 11 percent, according to results of the second quarter “Tugon ng Masa” (TNM) survey, which involved 1,200 adult respondents nationwide and had a margin of error of ±3 percent, showed.

The President, in a chance interview, said the survey results should inspire government to do more and even better.

“It’s good to have that kind of result or statistic behind you… it seems people are beginning to understand what we are trying to do, they’re beginning to feel the effects of it. So we must continue to do more and even try to do even better so that’s always an inspiration,” he said.

The TNM results showed Marcos was most trusted in Luzon with 80 percent (from 79 percent) followed by the National Capital Region (NCR) with 70 percent (unchanged), the Visayas with 69 percent (from 67 percent) and Mindanao with 56 percent (up from 48 percent); and among socio-economic class ABC with 74 percent (up from 64 percent), followed by D with 71 percent (from 69 percent), and E with 66 percent (from 67 percent).

The President also enjoyed majority satisfaction rating across geographical locations and socioeconomic classes with the highest from Luzon with 75 percent (unchanged), followed by NCR with 68 percent (from 65 percent), the Visayas with 65 percent (up

The survey showed Marcos’ trust rating up by 2 points at 71 percent (from 69 percent in the March survey) followed by Senate President Francis Escudero with 67 percent, Duterte 65 percent (down from 68 percent), Speaker Martin Romualdez 62 percent (from 61 percent), and Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo with 13 percent (down from 15 percent).

Except for Gesmundo, all other ranking officials got majority trust ratings across all geographical locations and socioeconomic classes.

Duterte was the most distrusted among officials, with her distrust rating up by six points to 11 from 5 percent, followed