The leading presidential candidate, Mayor Duterte of Davao City is “humbled” by the latest results of the Pulse Asia Survey showing the social media’s favorite candidate enjoying a 12-point lead over his nearest rival Sen. Grace Poe less than a month before the highly anticipated May 2016 national elections.
Mayor Duterte’s camp through Peter Laviña, spokesperson for the Davao City mayor, said in a text message that “[T]he continuing rise of Duterte in the surveys [came] in spite of all garbage thrown on him,” Peter Laviña stated.
The Pulse Asia presidential preference survey was conducted from April 12 to 17, 2016 and based upon the results of the survey Mayor Duterte got 34 percent of the respondents saying that they would vote for him, the results was up 2 points from the April 5-10 survey while former survey front-runner Sen. Grace Poe received 22 percent which is down by 3 points compared to the previous survey conducted by Pulse Asia.
Vice President Jejomar Binay on his part dropped 1 point to 19 percentage points while the Liberal Party’s standard-bearer Mar Roxas was stead at 18 percent, the last but not the least presidential candidate, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago only got 2 percent which is up by one point compared to the previous survey.
According to Pulse Asia in the latest presidential preference survey, they interviewed a total of 4,000 respondents nationwide and used a margin of error of plus-or-minus 1.5 percentage points.
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte of Davao City, the standard-bearer of PDP-Laban, the political party that brought the former President Cory Aquino to Malacanang dominated in the latest Pulse Asia survey as he was ahead in all socioeconomic cl(–foul word(s) removed–) getting close to half of the voters of the upper and middle cl(–foul word(s) removed–). In Mindanao, Mayor Duterte’s bailiwick, he enjoyed almost insurmountable lead against the other presidential aspirants.
The Davao City Mayor’s spokesperson, Peter Laviña said Duterte’s rise was proof that Filipinos across all cl(–foul word(s) removed–) were clamoring for genuine change.
“This 12-point lead inspires us to work even harder to frustrate the last-ditch efforts by the ‘trapos’ (traditional politicians) to stop the advance and victory of our people,” said Duterte’s spokesperson.
