If given the chance, who will you vote as the next president of the Philippines?
SURVEYS during Philippine presidential elections are frequent – some trust it, some don’t. newsPinoy ventured on doing one last month, on the lighter side actually, to determine the pulse of Filipino-Aussies on who they would vote for in the coming elections.
In our ‘man-on-the-street’ random question-and-answer, we asked Filipino-Aussies on who, if given the chance, would they vote for as the next president of the Philippines. We used the term ‘given the chance’ because a lot of Filipino-Aussies in NSW did not register as absentee voters. (There are barely 600 Pinoy voters in NSW. On why, that’s another story).
But we raised the question to every Kabayan we could find out in the street and ticked the scores. We stopped when we got 100 respondents.
Here’s what we found out:
Of 100 respondents – 21 prefered Noynoy Aquino, 18 chose Manny Villar, 17 for Richard Gordon.
The rest – Bro. Eddie Villanueva – 9; Gibo Teodoro – 4; Joseph Estrada – 3. No votes for Jamby Madrigal, Nicanor Perlas and JC de los Reyes. Twenty-eight (28) respondents said they were undecided, did not really know the candidates (or simply had little interest on the elections).
[CAUTION: This should not be taken as a serious survey as there were no sampling methods applied except that the respondents were aged 18 and above, a Filipino-Aussie, and someone who had something to say (or none to say at all) in the coming Philippine elections. - newsPinoy]
