Poll: Most Filipinos satisfied with Marcos administration

by Red mendozA ManilaTimes.net

MORE than seven out of 10 Filipinos are satisfied with the performance of the administration of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., a survey commissioned by OCTA Research showed.

In its Tugon ng Masa first quarter survey conducted from March 24 to 28, 72 percent of Filipinos said they were satisfied, while 8 percent said they were not satisfied with the performance of Marcos.

The 72 percent is a “nominal decrease” from the previous OCTA survey last October, where the administration got a 76 percent satisfaction rating.

Marcos’ satisfaction rating was highest in the Visayas at 83 percent, followed by Balanced Luzon at 77 percent and Mindanao at 67 percent.

The National Capital Region (NCR or Metro Manila) reported the lowest satisfaction rating at 51 percent.

It was also the region where the highest percentage of adult Filipinos were dissatisfied with the current administration at 13 percent.

The NCR too was the region with the highest percentage of those who said they were ambivalent about the performance of the administration at 35 percent.

Class D respondents comprised the highest percentage of adults who were satisfied with the performance of the Marcos administration at 74 percent, followed by classes ABC and E at 68 percent.

Class ABC’s percentage is a 6-percent increase from the previous survey, while it is a 5-percent decrease for Class E.

The highest percentage of the dissatisfied came from Class ABC at 11 percent, and the ambivalent from Class E.

By regions, the administration had satisfaction ratings ranging from 51 percent to 96 percent, with the highest in the Cordillera Administrative Region at 96 percent and the lowest in the NCR at 51 percent.

Both Zamboanga Peninsula and Northern Mindanao reported the highest levels of dissatisfaction at 18 percent.

From the 55 to 64 age group came the highest satisfaction rating for the Marcos administration at 81 percent, and the 75 and above group the lowest satisfaction rating at 81 percent.

Seventy-seven percent of adult Filipinos with no formal or elementary education were satisfied with the current administration.

OCTA said the 4-point decrease was caused by a drop in all major areas except for Balanced Luzon, which reported an increase of 4 percentage points.

The survey had 1,200 respondents with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent across the country and plus or minus 6 percent in the NCR, Balanced Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao. n

Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) Director Teresito “Toto” Bacolcol told The Manila Times that the parameters recorded by the Mayon Volcano Network (MVN) have been changing every day.

“Sometimes, the parameters like the sulfur dioxide (SO2) gas emission, volcanic tremors and rockfall events would increase, then the next day they would decrease, so we can say that they are still lowrate parameters,” Bacolcol said Monday, June 26.

“The recorded low-level parameters reflect what is happening on the vent, which is an effusive eruption,” the Phivolcs chief added. Phivolcs explained that an effusive eruption is dominated by the outpouring, fountaining or ejection of fluid lava, and the magma has a low viscosity or is runny, wherein gas can escape easily.

“Effusive eruption involves the gentle release of lava on the edifice of the volcano,” it said.

In the past 24 hours, Phivolcs said the lava slowly oozing out of the volcano’s crater reached 1.3 kilometers and 1.2 kilometers along the Mi-isi gully in Daraga town and the Bonga gully in Legazpi City, respectively.

The MVN also recorded 263 rock fall events, 102 volcanic earthquakes and eight pyroclastic density currents, which are avalanches of volcanic ash, rock and gases.

The S02 gas emissions averaged 925 tons per day on June 25, Phivolcs said.

Continuous moderate degassing from the summit crater produced steam-laden plumes that rose 100 meters before drifting to the west, MVN said. n