Vox Populi: Belen maintains comfortable
A poll survey conducted two weeks ago by pollster Vox Populi gave Mayor Belen Fernandez a comfortable lead over her challenger Vice Mayor Brian Lim.
This was disclosed by Vox Populi’s Art Valenzuela when he was guest Tuesday during the “Serbisyo Publiko” program on K17 Kabaleyan Channel.
The survey, he said, had 1,000 respondents in 31 barangays but Valenzuela begged off to reveal the specific numbers out of respect for both Fernandez and Lim.
“Out of respect doon sa dalawang tumatakbo, Belen and Brian, I will not yet cite specific figures. Pero para sa ngayon, comfortable ang lead ni Mayor Belen sa kanyang kalaban,” Valenzuela said in Filipino.
In the same contest, he said the vice mayoralty race, the mayor’s running-mate Dean Bryan Kua was way ahead over Brian’s teammate Alfie Fernandez.
Valenzuela admitted conducting the survey on his own being a native Dagupeño who also wants to know the political climate in his own city.
Six candidates for councilors under Mayor Belen came out in the survey and only four from Brian’s team. But the result for the council seats may yet change up to the election, Valenzuela said.
Another survey in Dagupan which Valenzuela calls as Track No. 3 got underway in Dagupan last April 25 with the official results to be released after the Pista’y Dayat.
Valenzuela said he believes that the election in Dagupan will ultimately be decided by performance and accomplishments.
Face-to-face interview is still the best method in gauging the pulse of the voters, he said and dismissed the results of online voting as well as radio surveys as “non-scientific” and “non-bearing”.
Vox Populi applied a mapping system based on locations of respondents.
Vouching for the integrity of the survey results, Valenzuela said his outfit was the official pollster of Lakas-CMD when Fidel Ramos ran for president in 1992 and when then Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. ran for president in 1998. Today, Vox Populi presently serves clients in General Santos City in Mindanao, Santiago City in Isabela and other provinces and cities. (Leonardo Micua).
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