Public trust ratings for President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and Vice President Sara Duterte fell , a survey by the Social Weather Stations done from Sept. 24 to 30 revealed Wednesday.
Marcos' trust ratings fell to 43 percent from 48 percent in June but still higher than a low of 36 percent in April.
Duterte's trust ratings slumped to 53 percent, down by eight percentage points from June. This is her steepest decline this year, said Stratbase.
''These results reflect a shifting public mood. Filipinos are reassessing their confidence in the country's top leaders, with both experiencing dips in trust, though the Vice President's decline is more significant,'' said Dindo Manhit, president of Stratbase, which commissioned the survey.
The survey was taken after the Sept. 21 rally where people protested over the alleged rigged bidding of flood control projects, some of which were found out not to have been done,
Another survey, taken by Pulse Asia, mirrored the underlying dissatisfaction of Filipinos.
In its poll, taken from Sept. 27 to 30, Pulse Asia said that ''agreement with the view that corruption is widespread in government is essentially universal not only at the national level (97 percent), but also in each geographic and socio-economic subgrouping (95 percent to 100 percent and 97 percent to 98 percent, respectively). DMS