‘Significant erosions’
Uh-oh, that’s not a slip, that’s a plunge.
Into their second year, Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte are seeing their approval and trust ratings plummeting by double digits from June to September, across all regions and classes.
This is according to a survey conducted from Sept. 10 to 14 by reputable pollster Pulse Asia, which described the latest ratings as “significant erosions.”
Marcos’ approval rating fell from 80 to 65 percent; Duterte’s from 84 to 73. BBM saw the biggest fall among the poorest, Class E, by a hefty 29 points from 82 to 53 percent, followed by the affluent Classes ABC, by 22 points, and Class D by 12 points.
Duterte, meanwhile, saw the biggest drop of 18 points among Class ABC, from 72 to 52 percent, followed by Class D at 11 percent and Class E, at eight percent.
Public trust was also down by 14 points for Marcos, at 71 percent, and by 12 points for Duterte, at 75 percent. The biggest drop for BBM was in both Class E and Class ABC, at a hefty 21 points. Duterte saw a smaller though still double-digit fall of 11 to 13 percent across all socioeconomic classes.
Both the President and VP saw the biggest fall in trust ratings in Luzon, at 20 and 18 points, respectively.
Leaders of the super majority in Congress – Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri and Speaker Martin Romualdez – also saw their approval and trust ratings falling during the period.
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It must be emphasized that the ratings of BBM and Duterte remain comfortably high for the second year of their term, with the VP continuing to enjoy higher numbers than the President.
They still enjoy majority approval and trust ratings. Also, the downtrend is not unusual; there’s typically no other way to go but down for survey ratings of presidents in this country.
And yet a double-digit drop in both approval and trust within just three months cannot be easily brushed aside. Surely even the Marcos and Duterte camps are trying to pinpoint the possible reasons for the public dissatisfaction.
The usual practice is to identify the raging issues during the period when a survey is taken. Because BBM and Inday Sara suffered significant drops, speculation revolves around the issues that might
