Category: 2010 elections

Update: SWS’s December 09 survey also puts Aquino in the lead

With less than five months before the May 10, 2010 elections, Liberal Party presidential candidate Benigno “Noynoy” C. Aquino maintains his sizable lead even as three other contenders improved their numbers, Pulse Asia’s December 2009 survey showed.

Pulse Asia asked 2,000 respondents last Dec. 8 to 10, “Of the people in the list, whom would you vote for as president of the Philippines is elections were held today?” In the list were Aquino, Manny Villar of the Nacionalista Party, Joseph Estrada of Puwersa ng Masang Pilipino, Gilbert Teodoro of Lakas-Kampi-CMD, Richard Gordon of Bagumbayan, and Eddie Villanueva of Bangon Pilipinas.

Aquino got 45 percent, one per cent higher than his October 2009 score of 44 per cent; Villar, 23 per cent, four per cent higher than the 19 per cent that he got last October; Estrada , 19 per cent, an eight per cent increase from his previous 11 per cent.

Click here (Pulse Asia) for its complete December 2009 survey.

Pulse Asia said Villar and Estrada are statistically tied for second place owing to the survey’s margin of error.

Brig. Gen.Danny Lim strongly protests his disqualification as senatorial candidate in the 2010 elections as “baseless and unconstitutional.”

“Despite the fact that I have been adopted by three major parties, climbed the survey ratings, received thousands of volunteers and endorsements, it is their tainted opinion that I have not proven that I could campaign, much less win in these elections and thus has included that I am no more than a nuisance candidate,” Lim said in a statement issued from his detention quarters in Camp Crame.

In Resolution 8713, Lim and 99 other candidates for senator including Ang Ladlad president Danton Remoto, who registered as “independent” were disqualified by Comelec for not having shown the capacity to wage a nationwide campaign.

Lim has been adopted guest candidate of the Liberal Party and Partido ng Masang Pilipino.

Update: Pulse Asia survey: 79 per cent won’t vote candidate endorsed by Gloria Arroyo

At the end of the filing of certificates of candidacy for the 2010 elections midnight of December 1, 2009, the Commission on Elections has received 99 aspirants for the presidency, 20 for the vice presidency and 158 for a seat in the Senate.

Among those who filed their COV’s on the last day were Lakas-Kampi-CMP bets Gilbert Teodoro and Edu Manzao, Bagumbayan’s Richard Gordon with running mate Bayani Fernando, and Jamby Madrigal, who is running as independent.

Ferdinand Rafanan, head of the Comelec’s law department, they will also prune the list of applicants motu propio by eliminating those considered as nuisance candidates. He expects the number to be cut into half easily.