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MANILA (Reuters) – Public confidence in Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte has fallen to the bottom of his presidency, according to a poll released on Saturday, although he kept a "very good" rating.
PHOTO: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte attends a ceremony commemorating the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust, in the remembrance room of the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem , September 3, 2018. REUTERS / Ronen Zvulun
Trust is used by independent social meteorological stations (SWS) to evaluate public opinion with a president's personality.
It fell 8 points in the second quarter to +57 from +65 in a previous poll. This is the lowest score of the popular leader in nine surveys since taking office in June 2016.
To achieve each score, the surveys subtract the percentage of people who answered "low confidence" in Duterte from those who said "have a lot of confidence" in him.
SWS interviewed 1,200 people at the end of June, a week in which Duterte called God "stupid" during a verbal attack on the Catholic Church after priests criticized his bloody campaign against Drugs.
The Philippines is predominantly Catholic.
Duterte again struck the church at a press conference on Saturday calling the priests' "the most hypocritical institution in the Philippines today," with the church facing child abuse cases in the Philippines. Philippines and elsewhere.
Ramon Casiple, director of the Institute for Political and Electoral Reforms in Manila, said it was normal for the president's note to fall to two years of his term.
The survey did not ask respondents to explain their assessment. Duterte had high confidence ratings, peaking at +79 shortly after taking office.
Duterte did not mention the results of the investigation on Saturday, but a spokesman praised the support.
"We are now working twice to help high-priced families while maintaining a stable economy," Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said in a statement.
Annual inflation reached its highest level in nearly a decade in August, exceeding expectations and increasing changes by a fourth rise in interest rates this year.
Report by Neil Jerome Morales; Edited by Martin Petty
