September 9, 2008

7-PERCENTAGE POINT LEAP
VILLAR POSTS BIGGEST GAIN IN PULSE ASIA TRUST SURVEY

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.