SWS: Satisfaction rating of top government execs down in Q4

MANILA, Philippines - Public satisfaction with the country’s top leaders plunged in the fourth quarter of the year, with Senate President Franklin Drilon and Vice President Jejomar Binay suffering the biggest drop, a survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.

The survey, conducted from Dec. 5 to 8, found Drilon’s net satisfaction score dipping 35 points from a “good” 42 in September to a personal record-low “neutral” 7 (38 percent satisfied, 31 percent dissatisfied).

Binay’s net satisfaction rating, meanwhile, slipped nine points to a personal record-low of “moderate” 24 (52 percent satisfied, 28 percent dissatisfied) from 33 (58 percent satisfied, 25 percent dissatisfied) in September.

The Vice President’s net satisfaction score used to be very good to excellent from March 2011 to September 2014, and good from December 2014 to September 2015, the SWS said.

Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno also suffered a five-point decrease in her satisfaction rating, hitting a personal record-low of “neutral” -1 (29 percent satisfied, 31 percent dissatisfied) from September’s 4.

SWS noted that out of its 13 surveys conducted since December 2012, Sereno obtained moderate rating in eight and neutral in five.

Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr.’s net satisfaction rating likewise fell in the fourth quarter to a “neutral” -1 (31 percent satisfied, 32 percent dissatisfied) from 5.

The results of the Fourth Quarter 2015 Social Weather Survey on public satisfaction with the vice president, Senate president, House speaker, chief justice and top government institutions were published in the newspaper BusinessWorld yesterday.

The same survey showed that satisfaction with the performance of key government institutions went down in the fourth quarter of the year.

The Senate’s satisfaction rating went down by 14 points to “good” 30 from 44.

The House of Representatives’ score dipped 10 points to “moderate” 16 from 26 in September.

The Supreme Court suffered a five-point drop to “moderate” 22 from 27 in September.

The rating of the Cabinet as a whole also plunged to “moderate” 11, from 16 in September.

The SWS interviewed 1,200 adult respondents nationwide.

It has sampling error margins of plus or minus three percentage points for national percentages and plus or minus six percentage points each for Metro Manila, balance of Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao.

Noted

Malacañang yesterday said it will bear in mind the results of the latest SWS survey. – With Delon Porcalla