President Rodrigo Duterte, whose six-year term ends on June 30, 2022, got a 62 percent net satisfaction at the start of his last 12 months in office, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said Thursday.
This is roughly the same rating the 76-year-old Duterte got when he started his presidency in 2016.
Some 75 percent of respondents in a June 2021 poll said they were satisfied with Duterte’s performance while 13 percent were not. About 12 percent said they were undecided, according to a webinar presentation by SWS fellow Jorge Tigno.
Duterte’s net rating, or the difference between those satisfied and dissatisfied with his performance, was at 62 percent, Tigno said.
“Looking at comparable data points across all the presidents beginning with Corazon Aquino, the noticeable difference for Duterte is that his net satisfaction rating at the beginning of his final year in June of ’21 is roughly the same as his very first satisfaction rating in September 2016,” Tigno said.
Duterte’s first satisfaction rating was +64 upon assuming the presidency, he noted.
“If you look at the beginning of the final year of past presidents, we see lower net satisfaction ratings, compared to the ratings when they first separately assumed office,” said Tigno, a political science professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman.
The late President Corazon Aquino ended with +24 in April 1991 from +53 in her first year.
Former President Fidel Ramos started with +66 and left the office with +49 in June 1997.
The late President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino had +30 in June 2015 from +60.
Former presidents Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Joseph Estrada were considered “outliers,” Tigno said.
Estrada failed to finish his term after being ousted in 2001.