Survey shows Duterte’s popularity soars with drug war

President Duterte’s popularity has soared during his first three months in office, a Social Weather Stations survey showed on Thursday. The survey showed that 76 percent of the 1,200 respondents said they were “satisfied” with Duterte’s performance, with just 11 percent reporting being “dissatisfied” and the rest undecided. The respondents, surveyed from September 24 to 27, were asked about Duterte’s performance as president without reference to the relentless and controversial drug war he has been waging. The survey gave the President a “very good” +64 public satisfaction rating. It was the first such rating for Duterte since he assumed office on June 30. SWS said that while Duterte’s net satisfaction rating is not the highest initial rating for a President since 1986, it is better than the +60 rating of his predecessor, Benigno S. Aquino III, in October 2010. The highest SWS rating for a Philippine president was the +66 [...]