Duterte gets 75% net satisfaction rating – SWS

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte got a 75-percent net trust rating in the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey.

The non-commissioned survey from December 8 to 16 on 1,200 respondents nationwide, released on Thursday night, showed a 15-point increase for Duterte or rating in September 2017 to 75 - ber. It had a ±3 margin of error.

The President’s net trust rating recorded the highest increases in the Visayas (from 57 to 76 percent) and Metro Manila (from 54 to 73 percent). The President posted high scores in Balance Luzon (from 52 to 66 percent) and in Mindanao (from 82 percent to 94 percent).

The President also remained popular among the poorest in society, logging in an 80-percent net trust rating in December 2017 from a mere 44 percent in September.

- proved net trust ratings in Class D (from 63 percent to 74 percent) and Class ABC (from 71 percent to 78 percent).

Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. attributed the President’s high

It is the political will to spend don’t have funds. We have always had funds, but there was very low absorptive capacity of government agencies. Now that there is a Free [ College] tuition law, clearly, there is no reason for us not to be able to spend funds. The Train law will also fund the build build Reform for Acceleration and In those earning less than P250,000

- ercised political will, including in efforts of eradicating violent why our people’s optimism is at an all-time high, the manufacturing output is well, the economy is growing, there is rule of law, Roque added.