DAVAO CITY – Presidential daughter Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio expressed happiness at the latest report on Pulse Asia which shows her father, President Rodrigo R. Duterte, recording the highest net trust rating among Philippine presidents.
“I am happy that majority of the Filipinos are behind the President,” she told reporters as she rallied Filipinos to take advantage of the President who is willing to risk his life for the people and country.
The mayor supported the President’s approach of balancing peace and order with the Build, Build, Build program. "It is only a matter of pushing the departments to move fast in the delivery of services so that people will see and feel their effect," she stressed.
The President’s peace and order program includes the war against illegal drugs and terrorism while his Build Build Build agenda is aimed at accelerating infrastructure and the development of industries and bringing down poverty from 21.6% in 2015 to 13%-15% by 2022.
It is also envisioned to yield robust growth, create jobs and uplift the lives of Filipinos. Infrastructure is among the top priorities of the Duterte Administration, with public spending on infrastructure projects targeted to reach 9 trillion pesos from 2017 to 2022.
On Wednesday, Pulse Asia released a Comparative Performance and Trust Ratings of Presidents gathered from the May 1999 to September 2017 Pulse Asia surveys.
These were surveys conducted for former Presidents Joseph Estrada, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Benigno Aquino III on their first year in office.
The Pulse Asia report showed that Duterte obtained a net trust rating of +74 in its September 2017 survey, its first since Duterte turned one year in office.
According to the report, 80 percent of Filipinos expressed trust in Duterte, while six percent expressed distrust and 14 percent were undecided, yielding a net trust score of +74.
The report showed Duterte is more trusted than Aquino, who obtained a net trust score of + 70 in August 2011. Arroyo recorded a higher net trust score of +23 in April 2002 while Estrada obtained a +11 net trust rating in a December 1999 Pulse Asia survey. (Lilian C. Mellejor/PNA)
