Press Release September 9, 2008
7-percentage point leap Of all the public officials polled for trust rating, Senate President Manny Villar posted the biggest gain as the most trusted public figure with a 7-percentage point leap from March to July 2008. Pulse Asia's latest trust rating survey showed Villar galloping from 58-percent trust rating in March 2008 to 65 percent trust rating in July 2008, or an improvement of 7-percentage points. Villar's trust improvement is the biggest compared to all public figures included in the survey, which is topped by Sen. Francis Escudero with a 75-percent trust rating in July 2008, from a 74-percent rating in March this year. Second from top is Sen. Loren Legarda with 71 percent, down from 76 percent; and third is Sen. Manuel Roxas II with 69 percent, from 67 percent. Completing the top seven are: Sen. Panfilo Lacson on fifth with 56 percent (from 61 percent last March); Vice-President Noli de Castro on sixth place with 53 percent (from 49 percent); and; Sen. Jamby Madrigal, whose name was included on the survey list for the first time, took the seventh place with a trust rating of 44 percent. |
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