The Standard - 2015 June 20 - Saturday

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ROTARY CLUB OF MANILA NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR 2015 VOL. XXIX  NO. 120  2 Sections 24 Pages P18  SATURDAY: JUNE 20, 2015  www.thestandard.com.ph  editorial@thestandard.com.ph

House says it won’t let go of Wang Bo probe

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POE TOPS SWS SURVEY SWS on 2016 Elections:

PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE

By Sandy Araneta

PHILCONSA SUIT

42% POE

34% BINAY

21% MAR

20% DUTERTE

7% ESTRADA

7% LACSON

4% ESCUDERO

4% SANTIAGO

3% MARCOS

2% CAYETANO

Against the Bangsamoro entity. Philconsa president Ferdinand Martin Romualdez along with former Senator Francisco Tatad, Archbishops Romulo De la Cruz and Fernando Capalla, former National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales, and Philconsa chairman Manuel Lazaro leave the Supreme Court after filing a petition against the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro and the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro on Friday. Rey E. Requejo

Binay still optimistic despite drop in poll ratings By Vito Barcelo and Macon Ramos-Araneta THE camp of Vice President Jejomar Binay said Friday they were optimistic of his chances to become president in 2016 despite a drop in his recent opinion survey scores.

The vice president’s media affairs spokesman, Joey Salgado, said despite the persistent attacks on the Vice President, they were thankful for the support Filipinos were showing for Binay. A consistent leader in both the Social Weather Station (SWS) and Pulse Asia opinion polls,

Binay has been overtaken in the latest surveys by Senator Grace Poe. “The campaign continues to learn from the ground and adjust its efforts accordingly. The Vice President respects the survey results,” Salgado said in a statement.

Binay, he said, described the surveys as barometers of the pulse of the public at a point in time. Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who has expressed his presidential ambitions, said he was not concerned with Poe’s recent showing. Next page

SENATOR Grace Poe pulled ahead of Vice President Jejomar Binay in the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey of voter preferences for the next president. In its second quarter survey, Poe was chosen the best by 42 percent of the respondents as the best candidate to succeed President Benigno Aquino III when he steps down next year. Binay slid to second place in the survey with 34 percent, while the presumptive presidential candidate of the ruling Liberal Party, Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II came in third with 21 percent. Poe and Binay were also no. 1 and no. 2 respectively in the most recent Pulse Asia survey. In the SWS survey, other candidates mentioned by the respondents and their respective showings were Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, 20 percent; ousted President and current Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada and former senator Panfilo Lacson, with 7 percent each; Senator Francis Escudero and Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago, with 4 percent; Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr., 3 percent; Senator Allan Peter Cayetano, 2 percent; former House Speaker Manny Villar, 1 percent; (unspecified) Binay, 1 percent; Senator Loren Legarda, 1 percent; and Senator Antonio Trillanes, 1 percent. Some 9 percent of the respondents had no answer, while 5 percent said they didn’t know or refused to answer. The June 2015 SWS survey was conducted from June 5 to 8, 2015 using face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adults nationwide, 300 each in Metro Manila, Balance of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao (sampling error margins of 3 percent for national Next page

Filipinos’ worry: War with China

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