More than 80 percent of Filipinos trust President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio, 10 months into their terms in office, based on the OCTA Research Group’s latest Tugon ng Masa survey.
Results of OCTA’s independent and nonpartisan poll in March showed most of the country’s adult population trust Mr. Marcos, 65, and Duterte-Carpio, 44, who received 83 percent and 87 percent trust scores respectively.
The latest poll was conducted from March 24 to 28, 2023, and used face-to-face interviews with 1,200 adults nationwide. It had a ±3 percent margin of error at a 95 percent confidence level.
Mr. Marcos’ highest satisfaction rating was in the Visayas at 89 percent, while Duterte-Carpio’s was in Mindanao at 92 percent.
The National Capital Region was the area where both the officials’ lowest satisfaction rating was recorded at 73 percent and 76 percent, respectively.
In October last year, they both received 86 percent trust ratings.
“Bare to big” majority approval ratings were also recorded by Mr. Marcos (80 percent) and Duterte-Carpio (84 percent), along with Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri (53 percent), and House Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez (59 percent).
Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo, meanwhile, posted a performance rating of less than the majority at 41 percent.
The dissatisfaction of adult Filipinos was lowest with Mr. Marcos at 6 percent and Duterte-Carpio at 4 percent, and highest with Gesmundo at 14 percent.
Among the socio-economic classes, OCTA said Mr. Marcos had the highest satisfaction rating of adult Filipinos in Class ABC at 84 percent, and the lowest in Class E at 78 percent.
The percentage of approval of adult Filipinos on Duterte-Carpio was 87 percent in Class ABC, and 84 percent in Class D and E.
OCTA also noted a significant rise in the performance and trustworthiness of Romualdez and Gesmundo from the previous survey, after recording 15 percent and 11 percent for performance, and 17 percent and 15 percent for trustworthiness, respectively.