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Fewer Pinoys trust Robredo after Cabinet exit: Pulse Asia

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/01/01/vp-leni-robredo.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">Vice President Leni Robredo speaks during an interview at the Quezon City Reception House last December. <cite>Ezra Acayan, Reuters</cite></div></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - Vice President Leni Robredo&#x27;s trust ratings dropped in the last quarter of 2016 after she resigned from the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte, according to the latest Pulse Asia survey.</p><p>The poll, conducted from December 6 to 11 among 1,200 respondents, showed Robredo&#x27;s national trust score at 58 percent, down seven percentage points from her <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/21/16/duterte-still-most-trusted-ph-official-pulse-asia">65 percent</a> in September. </p><p>Duterte meanwhile <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/06/17/filipinos-still-trust-duterte-despite-controversies-pulse">received 83 percent</a> for his trustworthiness, only three points lower than his previous rating. </p><p>Pulse Asia noted that Robredo and Duterte are the only officials trusted by a majority of Filipinos. </p><p>The polling firm started conducting the survey just two days after Robredo <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/12/04/16/robredo-resigns-as-housing-secretary">resigned as Duterte&#x27;s Housing Secretary</a> due to her &quot;irreconcilable and public&quot; differences with the President. </p><p>Also among the events before and during the poll period were the Senate investigation of the killing of Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr.; the Supreme Court&#x27;s dismissal of petitions against the hero&#x27;s burial of former President Ferdinand Marcos; and the decision of the high court to clear three judges tagged by Duterte as &quot;narco-officials.&quot; </p><p>The survey had a error margins of ±3% at the national level and ± 6% for regional estimates. </p><figure class="op-interactive"><div id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1_Container"> <ivs-player id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-vid="1459487" data-ivs-floating="1"></ivs-player> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/iframe-parent.js"></script> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script> </div></figure><p>Robredo&#x27;s spokesperson Georgina Hernandez said the vice-president&#x27;s camp is taking the latest Pulse Asia survey result as an &quot;opportunity for the Vice President to continue on improving her service and performance to the Filipino people.&quot;</p><p>&quot;We know very well that Vice President Leni Robredo is a listening vice-president and she takes these results of Pulse Asia and SWS as a way for her to improve so that she serve the people better,&quot; she said in an ANC&#x27;s News Now interview. </p><p>Hernandez added they also recognize that Robredo continues to enjoy &quot;majority trust rating&quot; from the public, and vowed that Robredo will continue to lead their office so that they are able to serve the needs of the Filipino people, &quot;particularly those at the fringes of society.&quot;</p><p>She reported that the Office of the Vice President is currently working with the private sector and civil society partners to make this happen.</p><div><strong>APPROVAL, DISAPPROVAL RATINGS </strong></div><p>According to the survey, only half of Filipinos trust Senate President Aquilino &quot;Koko&quot; Pimentel III while 41 percent trust Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno and 38 percent find House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez trustworthy.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/01/01/survey-table-4.jpg"/></figure></div><p>The same survey found that most Filipinos express appreciation for the quarterly performance of Duterte (83 percent), Robredo (62 percent ), and Pimentel (55 percent). </p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/01/01/survey-table-1.jpg"/></figure></div><p>&quot;Public opinion concerning the work done by these top officials remains generally unchanged between September and December 2016,&quot; the pollster noted. </p><p>Sereno only bagged a 47-percent approval score and (47%) while the Alvarez got 43 percent. </p><p>Pulse Asia also measured the disapproval ratings of the five officials, with Duterte getting the lowest at 5 percent and Robredo scoring the highest at 16 percent. </p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/01/01/survey-table-3.jpg"/></figure></div><p>&quot;Between September and December 2016, the only significant movement in these officials’ national performance ratings is the increase in the overall disapproval score of Vice-President Robredo (+7 percentage points),&quot; Pulse said. </p>

<p>Vice President Leni Robredo's trust ratings dropped in the last quarter of 2016 after she resigned from the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte, according to the latest Pulse Asia survey.</p>

Vice President Leni Robredo's trust ratings dropped in the last quarter of 2016 after she resigned from the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte, according to the latest Pulse Asia survey.