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Volume III,  Number 48              January 11 - 17, 2004            Quezon City, Philippines


 





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Arroyo Continues To Lose Popularity

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her handlers should not only worry about the extreme popularity of presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr. With the elections just four months away, they should be more worried about the falling satisfactory rating of Arroyo.

By IBON FOUNDATION
Posted by Bulatlat.com


President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her handlers should not only worry about the extreme popularity of presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr. With the elections just four months away, they should be more worried about the falling satisfactory rating of Arroyo.

Arroyo's popularity further plunged in fourth quarter 2003 with almost 71 percent of Filipinos unhappy with her performance as the country's highest official, according to the yearend 2003 IBON nationwide survey.

From 62.06 percent who said that Arroyo's performance as President is not satisfactory in third quarter 2003, the number further climbed to 70.74 percent while those who feel that she performed well declined from 14.75 percent to 11.10 percent during the same period.

Aside from the public perception that the economic situation is worsening, other factors that contributed to the decline in Arroyo's popularity are the controversies which confronted the Arroyo administration in the fourth quarter.

It includes the alleged deal involving government concessions to beleaguered Lopez utility firms Maynilad and Meralco at the expense of consumers in exchange for Sen. Noli de Castro as Arroyo's running mate. De Castro is a former long-time newsreader at the Lopez-owned media giant ABS-CBN.

IBON conducted the nationwide survey on Dec. 1-14, 2003 involving 1,162 respondents and with a margin of error of plus or minus three percent.

Below is the tabulation of the survey results on the respondents' perception on Arroyo's performance. Posted by Bulatlat.com

What can you say the way President Gloria Arroyo fulfilled her tasks as President of the Philippines?

 

4th Qtr. 2003

3rd Qtr. 2003

Satisfactory

11.10

14.75

Not satisfactory

70.74

62.06

Don't  know

18.16

23.20

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