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November 22nd, 2005 04:33 AM #158% want Arroro to quit; 40% shun coup, says poll
Nov 22, 2005
Updated 00:56am (Mla time)
Inquirer News Service
NEARLY six of every 10 Filipinos want President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to resign, even though she survived an attempt to impeach her over allegations of election cheating, a leading pollster said yesterday.
Only 35 percent of respondents wanted Ms Arroyo to stay, with 58 percent preferring that she go, Pulse Asia Inc. said.
“A majority of Filipinos continue to favor the President’s resignation because they distrust her and believe that the 2004 presidential election was rigged,” Ana Maria Tabunda, Pulse Asia executive director, said in a statement.
“Half of Filipinos (52 percent) continue to believe that the President did not win the 2004 elections fairly, while nearly 30 percent are undecided on the matter. Seventeen percent believe that she won it fairly and without cheating,” Tabunda said.
Malacañang downplayed the results of the survey. “President Arroyo is not so much concerned with her rise and fall in surveys as she is with the rise and fall in food prices and employment rate,” said Rene Velasco, director general of the Philippine Information Agency.
“The former is an issue of popularity, while the latter is bread and butter for our people,” he said.
Tabunda said Pulse Asia undertook the survey “on its own without any party singularly commissioning the research effort.”
Policy on protests
The nationwide survey of 1,200 people (18 years old and above) was conducted on Oct. 15-27, at the height of the controversy over Ms Arroyo’s tough policy against street protests and her ban on bureaucrats attending congressional inquiries without her permission.
The survey had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points at the 95-percent confidence level.
While the majority favored the President’s exit, four in 10 felt a coup by the military and police would be “most inimical to the people’s well-being.”
Two Philippine leaders have been overthrown by popular uprisings -- dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 and President Joseph Estrada in 2001 -- and there have been at least a dozen coup attempts in the last 19 years.
Ms Arroyo, who took over the presidency after Estrada was ousted, has been embroiled in a crisis since June over allegations she cheated her way to victory in last year’s election and members of her family took kickbacks from illegal gambling operations.
The President, who denies any wrongdoing, weathered an impeachment attempt in September when the motion was quashed by a majority of her supporters in the House of Representatives.
Middle class
Ms Arroyo’s opponents are pressing their case that she quit, but analysts see little sign of the anger among the middle class that fueled the “people power” revolts against Marcos and Estrada.
“There is still no definitive agreement among Filipinos on the matter of the best individual to lead the Philippines at present,” Tabunda said in the statement.
Three names emerged: Vice President Noli de Castro, Estrada and Panfilo Lacson, an opposition senator.
While De Castro topped the list, his support fell from a high of 30 percent in June to 19 percent in October, Pulse Asia said. Estrada had 14 percent and Lacson, 13 percent.
Ms Arroyo and former President Fidel Ramos emerged as those least acceptable to lead the country.
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November 22nd, 2005 04:49 AM #2
i wonder what percentage of the poll takers are actually in favor of a coup...?
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November 22nd, 2005 08:02 AM #3
right now, anyone basta wag si gma para matapos na yung political uncertaintinty. so we can all move forward...
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November 22nd, 2005 08:40 AM #5
arroro di ba yung yung masarap na cookies na pinoy na nagme-melt in your mouth? :drool:
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November 22nd, 2005 10:28 AM #8takot na ang inquirer, ayaw na diretsuhin si arroyo baka masermunan ulit hehehe
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