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Saturday, December 18, 2004
Arroyo performance rating slid further
MANILA -- Fewer and fewer people are satisfied with President Arroyo's performance and that of her administration, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed.
Arroyo received a -5 net satisfaction rating in the SWS survey conducted from November 23 to December 2, which is 17 points lower than the 12 she got from August 5 to August 12
Her administration's overall net satisfaction rating also dropped by 12 points in the latest survey.
SWS surveyed a representative sample of 1,200 persons and at least 43 percent said they were not satisfied with Arroyo's performance while only 38 percent were satisfied or a -5 net satisfaction rating.
Arroyo's rating was barely an improvement from the -6 she got in the Mindanao Commission on Women Survey, also conducted by the SWS in October covering some 1,400 women.
An aide of President Arroyo shrugged off the survey results, saying it is the price that Arroyo is paying for the reforms that she has been undertaking and the programs she has implemented to stabilize the economy.
Communication Directors Silvestre Afable Jr. said "this has been a trend that has been there from the last month."
"The concerns had been there for a long time and the government is addressing them," Afable added.
At least 32 percent of those surveyed expressed dissatisfaction with the way government handled several issues, particularly concerning Filipinos in the Middle East, the poor, and crimes. This resulted in a drop in its satisfaction rating from 15 percent in August to three percent at present.
The survey showed a drop of 12 percent (from 20 percent to eight percent) in the way government saw to Filipinos in the Middle East, 15 percent drop (from 15 percent to zero) in government's actions to help the poor and six percent (from -6 to -12) in crime prevention.
There was, however, no change in the perception on government's handling of graft and corruption as it remained at -30 while satisfaction in the way government collects taxes was at -17 percent or at least 15 percent down form 2002's -2 rating.
There was hardly an improvement in the perception on government's efforts to handle the inflation issue (-42 from -43), while net satisfaction on government's handling of the hunger problem was at -34. At least 57 percent of those surveyed expressed dissatisfaction with the government's action on the hunger problem.
A drop in the public's perception on the loyalty of the military to President Arroyo has also dropped from 41 percent in 2003 to 34 percent at present. This contributed to the drop in Arroyo's overall net satisfaction rating.
The low perception of the military's loyalty is reminiscent of SWS surveys between September 1989 and April 1992 or during the Aquino regime, when it ranged between 29 percent and 38 percent while perceptions of AFP loyalty ranged from 42 percent to 50 percent during the Ramos administration and from 48 percent to 52 percent during the Estrada presidency. (JMR)
(December 18, 2004 issue)
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