SWS ratings of gov’t execs drop; Binay spared

Public satisfaction with the performance of top government officials in the line of succession to the presidency, except for Vice President Jejomar Binay, dropped, according to a latest survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS).

Satisfaction with the government’s main institutions also dropped in the SWS poll taken from May 24 to 27.

Binay maintained an “excellent” net rating of 70 (79 percent satisfied, nine percent dissatisfied) based on the results of the survey which were published in the newspaper BusinessWorld yesterday.

Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile’s net rating declined by eight points to a merely “good” 48 (64 percent satisfied, 16 percent dissatisfied) from a personal record high of a “very good” 56 in March.

Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. also suffered a 10-point drop in his net satisfaction score from 18 to 8 (36 percent satisfied, 28 percent dissatisfied).

The net satisfaction score of former chief justice Renato Corona, who was removed by the Senate impeachment court on May 29, has worsened from -28 to -44 (16 percent satisfied, 61 percent dissatisfied).

The SWS earlier reported that President Aquino’s net satisfaction score dropped to 42 (63 percent satisfied, 21 percent dissatisfied) in May from 49 in March.

Meanwhile, net satisfaction ratings for the Senate, House of Representatives, Supreme Court and the Cabinet also declined.

The Senate’s net rating dropped from a “very good” 58 – a record high – in March to a “good” 49 (65 percent satisfied, 16 percent dissatisfied) in May.

The House maintained a “good” 30 score (50 percent satisfied, 21 percent dissatisfied), but was down by 10 points from the record high of 40 previously.

It remained “moderate” for the Supreme Court at 13 (43 percent satisfied, 30 percent dissatisfied) but was lower by14 points from 27 previously.

The Cabinet also retained its “moderate” rating, but at 19 (42 percent satisfied, 24 percent dissatisfied), down by seven points from March.

The SWS used face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adults nationwide. It has sampling error margins of plus or minus three percentage points for national percentages and plus or minus six percentage points for area percentages.

The SWS defines net scores of 70 and above as “excellent”; 50 to 69, “very good”; 30 to 49, “good”; 10 to 29 “moderate”; 9 to -9, “neutral”; -10 to -29, “poor”; -30 to -49, “bad”; -50 to -69, “very bad”; and -70 and below, “execrable.”