Newcomers Included in latest Senate survey.
Senate newcomers. Few days before the May 9 election, ABS-CBN’s Pulse Asia Survey released new results for the Senate race coming from four thousand respondents polled from April 26-29 with a nationwide margin of error of 1.5%.
Although there are no surprise that the former senators and senators went in the winning circle, five newcomers landed spots in the top 12 of the senatorial race survey giving an advantage for their win.
Senate President Franklin Drilon led the survey followed by Senator Tito Sotto, former Senator Kiko Pangilinan, Juan Miguel Zubiri, and Senator Ping Lacson.
Coming next to Lacson is Representative Manny Pacquiao and former PhilHealth director Riza Hontiverson, former TESDA chief Joel Villanueva, Senatir Serge Osmena, former Senator Dick Gordon, former Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, Senator Ralph Recto and Mayor Sherwin Gatchalian.
Pacquiao, Hontiveros, de Lima, Villanueva and Gatchalian are senatorial aspirants who may have not been elected in the office yet showed notable records in the recent surveys.
The same names were also present in the top roll of the April 19 t0 24 survery.
Drilon, Pangilinan, Lacson, Villanueva and Recto are all candidates under the administration’s Liberal Party while Sotto and Gatchalian are under the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC).
Meanwhile, Pacquio runs with UNA, Hontiverso with Akbayan; Lacson, Zubiri, Osmena and Gordon however are all independent runners to retain Senatorial seats.
If elected, Pacquiao, Hontiveros, Villanueva, de Lima and Gatchalian would be the only first timers in the Senate.
Moreover, de Lima is the only one without experience in legislation.
In the presidential bets survey, Davao City Mayor Rodrido Dutere led anew.
The survey reminds that the results serve as only a guide and not meant to alter anyone’s vote. On May 9, go out and fulfill your right to vote.