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The final two seats could be an in depth battle amongst Makati Mayor Abby Binay; reelectionist senators Lito Lapid, Imee Marcos, Bato dela Rosa; and Las Piñas Congresswoman Camille Villar
MANILA, Philippines – A brand new survey by polling agency Pulse Asia has the administration slate taking 8 or 9 seats, 1 or 2 for the Duterte opposition camp, and a couple of unbiased candidates as probably winners of the 2025 senatorial elections if the midterm polls had been held from November 26 to December 3.
“We’re releasing the pre-election voting preferences for the 2025 senatorial race, primarily based on an unbiased survey carried out by Pulse Asia Analysis Inc. The survey concerned face-to-face interviews with 2,400 randomly chosen grownup Filipinos,” Pulse Asia stated on Saturday, December 21.
Respondents had been requested to select from 66 names of Fee on Elections (Comelec)-approved senatorial candidates on the checklist. Solely 3% refused to reply whereas 2.3% gave no reply; 1.7% stated “don’t know.”
Broadcaster and ACT-CIS Consultant Erwin Tulfo, operating on the Marcos administration slate, is once more on high with round 62% voting for him. The primary social welfare secretary underneath the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. administration has been topping many of the pre-election surveys. He was bypassed by the Fee on Appointments in November 2022 over his US citizenship and libel conviction.
Former senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III received 59% help. After getting term-limited in 2022, Sotto returned to internet hosting duties within the long-running midday present Eat Bulaga!, which now airs on the Kapatid channel TV5.
The 2 broadcast personalities ranked first or second within the newest Pulse Asia survey.
Reelectionist Senator Bong Go, former shut aide of ex-president Rodrigo Duterte, was third with 54%. Ben Tulfo, Erwin’s brother, was subsequent with 52.7%. Go and Ben Tulfo had been ranked third or 4th. Go is operating underneath Duterte’s PDP-Laban celebration, whereas television-radio-social media persona Ben is an unbiased candidate.
The Tulfo brothers are perceived to be approachable defenders of the unvoiced, performing shortly on individuals’s issues. In the event that they win, they may be a part of brother Raffy Tulfo within the Senate, the primary time that three siblings would sit concurrently within the higher home.
Reelectionist Pia Cayetano and former senator-boxing champion Manny Pacquiao received 46.5% and 45% help respectively, with the 2 ranked fifth to ninth place.
Cayetano, a candidate of the Nacionalista Get together (NP), and Pacquiao are each with the administration slate.
Former senator Ping Lacson, an unbiased however backed by the administration, received the identical statistical degree of help (43-44%) as TV host Willie Revillame, and reelectionist Ramon “Bong” Revilla of Lakas-CMD. The three would have positioned wherever from fifth to tenth place if polls had been held through the survey interval.
Revillame is operating as an unbiased candidate.
The final two seats could be an in depth battle amongst Makati Mayor Abby Binay; reelectionist senators Lito Lapid, Imee Marcos, Bato dela Rosa; and Las Piñas Congresswoman Camille Villar. They’d rank from tenth to fifteenth place if polls had been held through the survey interval.
Of the 4, solely Dela Rosa, operating underneath PDP-Laban, shouldn’t be on the administration slate. The president’s sister, Imee, withdrew from the administration slate final September, however remains to be operating underneath the Nacionalista Get together (NP), one of many ruling coalition events.
Nonetheless inside putting distance of the profitable circle of 12 had been former senators Kiko Pangilinan of the Liberal Get together, Gringo Honasan, Bam Aquino, and former Inside secretary Benhur Abalos.
Heart specialist and well being advocate Dr. Willie Ong of Aksyon and administration guess Francis Tolentino would rank nineteenth to twentieth. Ong has been getting remedy for most cancers, and stated final October that his sarcoma or mass had shrunk by 60%.
The two,400 survey respondents had been requested, “Kung ang eleksyon sa Mayo 2025 ay isasagawa ngayon, sino-sino sa mga sumusunond na personalidad ang inyong biboboto bilang SENADOR? Maari kauyong pumili ng hanggang 12 pangalan.”
(If the Could 2025 elections had been to be held immediately, whom among the many following personalities would you vote for as senator? You may select as many as 12 names.)
In comparison with the Pulse Asia’s September 6 to 13 Ulat ng Bayan senatorial survey with 74 names on the checklist, the largest gainers had been:
- Camille Villar (+15.3 factors)
- Lito Lapid (+14.5 factors)
- Bong Go (+14.4 factors)
- Manny Pacquiao (+13.1 factors)
- Kiko Pangilinan (+12.6 factors)
- Tito Sotto (+11.2 factors)
- Benhur Balos (+11.1 factors)
- Bato dela Rosa (+10.7 factors)
For a deeper dive on the 2025 mid-term elections, learn these articles on voter tendencies and points by information forensics firm, The Nerve, and Rappler:
– Rappler.com
