PHOTO: RAMIL BALINGIT
OVERSEAS VOTING STARTS APRIL 9
Volume VI No 6 | MARCH 2016 | www.kalatas.com.au | [email protected] | facebook.com/angkalatas | +angkalatas | @angkalatas
Latest Pulse Asia surveys show
Their hero
no more
SOME things are not easily
forgotten. At the recent Mardi
Gras Gay Pride Parade in Sydney,
some Pinoy LGBT community
members took time to send their
message to senatorial candidate
Sarangani rep. Manny Pacquiao:
he’s losing their votes.
Last month, the Philippines’
boxing icon earned the ire of the LGBT
community with his now infamous
“masahol pa sa hayop” statement
when he reiterated his stance against
same-sex marriage. Pacquiao had
apologised for his remarks.
But the LGBT community in
the Philippines, including Sydneybased Pinoy gays, have continued
their campaign against Pacquiao.
The backlash is already being felt by
Pacquiao. From a high 8-10 ranking
in surveys for senatorial candidates,
Pacquaio is now within the 14-16
placement ranking, putting him out of
the so-called ‘Magic 12’ winning circle.
At the Sydney parade, ‘Cristina’
carried a placard expressing a
continuing anti-Pacquiao sentiment in
the LGBT quarters.
TOP SENATORS PREFERED
A total of 56 candidates are
vying for the 12 Senate seats up
for grabs on May 9.
Latest PA survey shows the
top on the list of preferences are
incumbent or former senators:
1. Tito Sotto 63%
2. Panfilo Lacson 60%
3. Francis Pangilinan 54%
4. Ralph Recto 53%
5. Franklin Drilon 52%
6. Juan Miguel Zubiri 48%
POE
26%
ESCUDERO 29%
BINAY
DUTERTE
HONASAN 4%
CAYETANO 12%
25%
LESS than two months away to
election date, the race for the
presidency remains a close one.
It is just too tight. The latest
Pulse Asia survey released
early this month (covering
February 15-20 period) show the
frontrunners – Vice President
Jejomar Binay (UNA) and
Senator Grace Poe (Ind) – are
virtually locked in a tie while
close behind them are Davao
City mayor Rodrigo Duterte
(PDP-Laban) and administration
bet Mar Roxas (Liberal) who
also ended up in a deadlock.
Interestingly, Duterte’s numbers
are on an upward trend; same
too with Roxas. Only Senator
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
appears to be on the exit trail –
she’s struggling at 3 to 4% and
her numbers have not been
improving at all.
21%
ROXAS
SANTIAGO
ROBREDO 19%
MARCOS 26%
21%
3%
Their rankings are practically the same in
another survey done by the Social Weather
Station earlier. VP Binay was first (31%),
Poe was second (24%), Roxas (21%), Duterte
(20%), and Santiago (3%).
Nothing appears to be predictable. There
are no sure winners yet and one can only expect
the four candidates to go all-out with their guns
blazing as they try to knock each other out for
the top spot.
An interesting race to watch is the one on the
vice presidential race with erstwhile frontrunner
Senator Chiz Escudero now statistically
tied with Senator Ferdinand Bongbong
Marcos Jr – 29% and 26% respectively. The
administration’s VP bet Leni Robredo has
improver her numbers but she’s still lagging
quite a distance at 19%.
POE CAN RUN. It is now official:
GRACE POE IS A CANDIDATE. The
supreme court has voted (9-6) in favour of
Senator Poe dismissing the disqualification
filed against her. The SC ruling reverses
an earlier comelec decision to disqualify the
woman senator from the presidential race due
to questions surrounding her citizenship and
her residency.