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By James Konstantin Galvez Reporter
It is bad to worse for President
Arroyo and spouse Jose Miguel as 71 percent of the public think they
are directly linked to graft and corruption, according to the latest
Social Weather Stations (SWS) in the Mega Manila area.
The survey was commissioned by
the united opposition, which expressed belief that former President
Joseph Estrada continues to be a public figure trusted by the
people, even much more than Mrs. Arroyo.
The poll was conducted on July 18
to 20 with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent.
The SWS survey said 71 percent
of the respondents said they believe President Arroyo was enriching
herself through various corrupt practices while serving as the
country’s chief executive.
Only 24 percent said they do not
think Mrs. Arroyo was corrupt; 5 percent had no opinion.
Her husband, Mike Arroyo, fared
worse as 77 percent of those polled said they believed he was
involved in corruption. Only 19 percent said they don’t believe he
was corrupt; 4 percent refused to answer the question.
Some 71 percent said they do not
trust the President’s husband.
According to the survey, two of
three of the respondents, or 66 percent, said they don’t believe
Estrada enriched himself through corrupt practices while he was
president. Thirty-one percent of the respondents said they believed
Estrada was corrupt, and 3 percent had no comment.
The survey was conducted on 600
respondents in the Mega Manila area covering Metro Manila and the
provinces of Bulacan, Rizal, Cavite and Laguna.
Asked for their “opinion on a
person’s degree of corruption,” a significant majority of the
respondents, or 78 percent, said they considered President Arroyo
either “very” or “somewhat” corrupt.
Eighteen percent said they were
convinced that President Arroyo was either “probably” or
“definitely not” corrupt.
Eighty-one percent of those
polled rated Mr. Arroyo as either “very” or “somewhat
corrupt.” Thirteen percent said he was either “probably” or
“definitely not corrupt.”
A bulk of the respondents, or 76
percent, in the upper to middle “ABC” classes agreed that
corruption increased under the Arroyo administration. Similarly, 71
percent in the class D and 73 percent in class D likewise said
corruption increased in the Arroyo administration.
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