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Marcos admin gets high approval for protecting OFWs, responding to disaster-hit areas — Pulse Asia

Approval ratings decline on 11 issues

Published Apr 5, 2024 05:17 am

At A Glance

  • The survey revealed that most adult Filipinos have a positive opinion about the efforts of the national administration to protect the welfare of overseas Filipino workers (68 percent) and respond to the needs of calamity-hit areas (65 percent).
  • The national administration received its lone majority disapproval score (71 percent) on the topic of controlling inflation, which is the national issue that Filipinos are most concerned about (70 percent).
  • Pulse Asia said the administration's approval scores on 11 issues have declined from December 2023 to March 2024.
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President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalete/ MANILA BULLETIN)

The Marcos administration received majority approval ratings on two major issues in the first quarter of 2024, based on the Pulse Asia survey results released on Friday, April 5.

The survey revealed that most adult Filipinos have a positive opinion about the efforts of the national administration to protect the welfare of overseas Filipino workers (68 percent) and respond to the needs of calamity-hit areas (65 percent).

Appreciation is the “plurality” sentiment toward the work done by the present dispensation in the areas of promoting peace (50 percent), protecting the environment (49 percent), defending national territorial integrity (49 percent), and fighting criminality (47 percent).

Meanwhile, “around the same” approval and indecision ratings were recorded on the issues of enforcing the rule of law (43 percent versus 38 percent) and creating more jobs (37 percent versus 41 percent).

Pulse Asia added that “virtually the same” disapproval and indecision figures were registered on the issues of increasing workers’ pay (34 percent versus 37 percent), fighting corruption in government (41 percent versus 39 percent), and reducing poverty (42 percent versus 39 percent).

“Big pluralities” of Filipinos cannot say if they approve or disapprove of the incumbent administration’s initiatives to help farmers (44 percent) and addressing the problem of involuntary hunger (40 percent).

Meanwhile, the national administration received its lone majority disapproval score (71 percent) on the topic of controlling inflation, which is the national issue that Filipinos are most concerned about (70 percent).

READ MORE: https://mb.com.ph/2024/4/5/inflation-is-still-most-urgent-national-concern-for-majority-of-filipinos-in-q1-2024-survey-shows

Approval scores drop on 11 issues

Pulse Asia pointed out that the administration’s approval scores on enforcing the rule of law (-8 percentage points), creating more jobs (-8 percentage points), fighting criminality (-9 percentage points), protecting the welfare of overseas Filipino workers (-10 percentage points), fighting corruption (-10 percentage points), helping calamity-hit areas (-11 percentage points), promoting peace (-11 percentage points), defending national territorial integrity (-12 percentage points), helping farmers (-12 percentage points), protecting the environment (-13 percentage points), and addressing the problem of involuntary hunger (-13 percentage points) have dropped from December 2023 to March 2024.

Meanwhile, the level of ambivalence went up in relation to the current administration’s initiatives to control inflation (+6 percentage points), helping calamity-hit areas (+7 percentage points), protecting the environment (+7 percentage points), defending national territorial integrity (+7 percentage points), fighting criminality (+7 percentage points), protecting the welfare of overseas Filipino workers (+8 percentage points), promoting peace (+8 percentage points), increasing workers’ pay (+8 percentage points), helping farmers (+9 percentage points), and creating more jobs (+10 percentage points).

In terms of disapproval, the only marked movements occurred in connection with the administration’s work in the areas of enforcing the rule of law (+6 percentage points), addressing the problem of involuntary hunger (+7 percentage points), and fighting corruption in government (+8 percentage points).

The first quarter 2024 "Ulat ng Bayan" survey, which was conducted from March 6 to 10, drew responses from 1,200 respondents nationwide.

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