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Liberal Party standard-bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino 3rd emerged as the most trusted presidential candidate, according to the latest survey conducted by Pulse Asia.
Aquino got a trust rating of 64 percent while his closest rival, Sen. Manuel “Manny” Villar Jr. of the Nacionalista Party, slid down to 59 percent, said the survey conducted by Pulse Asia from February 21 to 25.
Villar had a 70-percent trust rating a month earlier.
Aquino’s running mate, Sen. Manuel “Mar” Roxas 2nd, also had the highest trust rating among vice presidential candidates with 70 percent.
Only 14 percent of voters said that they had “small/no trust” for Aquino, with the rest saying that they were undecided.
Former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada of Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino came in third, with a 40-percent trust rating followed by administration bet Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro with 29 percent and Sen. Richrad “Dick” Gordon of Bagumbayan Movement with 25 percent.
Among the other vice presidential bets, Sen. Loren Legarda, Villar’s running mate, got a 58-percent trust rating, a 3-percent drop from her January rating. Following Legarda was Mayor Jejomar Binay of Makati City, Estrada’s running mate, who got 45 percent while former Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Bayani Fernando, Gordon’s vice presidential bet, got 22 percent.
Former Optical Media Board Chairman and actor Edu Manzano, the running mate of Teodoro, got a 19-percent trust rating.
The Liberal Party said that the latest Pulse Asia survey validated the results of recent preelection preference surveys conducted by independent pollsters, where Aquino and Roxas were also leading.
The latest Pulse Asia survey on the trust ratings of presidential and vice presidential candidates was conducted using face-to-face field interviews of 1,800 representative adults 18 years old and above.
The nationwide survey has a plus or minus 2 percent error margin and error margins for specific geographical areas were as follows: plus or minus 6 percent for Metro Manila; plus or minus 4 percent for the rest of Luzon; and plus or minus 5 percent for each of Visayas and Mindanao.
Confident on Teodoro
Even with the poor showing of Teodoro in the latest Pulse Asia survey, Malacañang said that it was still confident the former Defense secretary would win in the May 10 polls.
Gary Olivar, the deputy presidential spokesman, said he believes that Teodoro’s ranking in the surveys will improve once the campaign at the local level starts next week.
“The administration believes that in the end it’s still the platform of government that will count on the day of the election and our presidential bet Gilbert Teodoro has it,” Olivar added. “It’s still ‘galing at talino [ability and intelligence]’ that will prevail.”
Once the local campaign starts, Olivar said, the administration would be able to show its strengths at the grassroot, which could boost Teodoro’s popularity among voters.
On Wednesday, Presidential Adviser for Political Affairs Prospero Pichay said that it is the party machinery, not popularity that will bring its candidates to victory.
Pichay added that Lakas-Kampi CMD has a strong machinery because majority of governors, congressmen and mayors in the country are allied with them.
He said that at the start of the local campaign, the local officials who belong to Lakas-Kampi CMD would help Teodoro convey his visions and platform of government to the people.
Pichay added that the administration party expects the survey ratings of its senatorial bets will improve as the elections draw near.
With reports from Cris G. Odronia and Angelo S. Samonte
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