The
administration’s drug war is now reaping its benefits.
Halfway to the six year term of the Duterte
administration, a Social Weather Station survey shows that 66% of Filipinos
believe there were fewer drug users in their communities in the last quarter of
2018.
A clear
testament that the policy of Duterte against the menace that is the illegal
drugs is working.
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And because of this, Malacanang has called out the critics and detractors of the President to stop using the drug war to attack this administration.
“As we all
know, it is a major campaign platform of President Duterte and remains a
centerpiece program of his Administration, notwithstanding the harshest
criticisms, brickbats and pressures the current government is receiving here
and abroad,” Presidential Spokesperson Atty. Salvador Panelo said.
Panelo recalled
the rime when the crtics of the President have been the most vocal in using the
drug war to maligned the Chief executive which even led to the filing of a
complaint in the International Court.
The
Presidential Spokesperson is hopeful one day that the positive result of the
recent survey will help the detractors and critics open their eyes and that they would
listen to the sentiment of the people which echoes the success of the drug war.
“They remain
skeptical, unimpressed and indifferent of the significant strides made by our
authorities in relation to prohibited narcotics even pointing out there remains
demand and supply on illegal drugs,” Panelo said.
“We ask them to stop
playing blind dumb and instead listen to the people: 83 percent of people of
Mindanao say there are less drug addicts there; 71 percent in the Visayas say
there is a decrease; 67 percent in Metro Manila likewise say there is a
decrease; while 54 percent in Luzon share the same sentiment,” he added.
Malacanang will not
sleep on its laurels, it will continue to make good in its promise to rid the
country od the illegal drug trade.
“Even as our people
acknowledge the Administration’s efforts to bring down the number of drug
personalities, our focus and drive remain unwavering in destroying the drug
apparatus and putting behind bars the drug pushers, with strict observance to
operational protocols, until the last day of the President’s term of office in
2022,” he said.
Based on the survey,
only 14% of the respondents believed that the number of drug peddlers and users
“increased” while the remaining 7% said nothing has changed.
N the same survey it
shows that nearly 95% of the respondents
believed that it is “important” for the members of the Philippine National
Police to capture the drug suspects alive.
Update: September 2019
Despite a small win for the opposition,
in the Iceland led resolution callin for the inventory of the Duterte
administration’s drug war, President Rodrigo Duterte over three years ago
continue to enjoy “excellent” net satisfaction rating.
The second quarter Social Weather
Stations (SWS) survey, conducted from June 22 to 26, found 82 percent of adult
Filipinos satisfied, 6 percent undecided and 12 percent dissatisfied with the
government’s anti-narcotics campaign.
This gives a net satisfaction rating of +70, classified as excellent and
tied the 2019 first quarter rating, according to the SWS.
The pollster said the net satisfaction on the anti-illegal drugs
campaign has always been either very good or excellent in the past 11 survey
rounds with the highest rating recorded in December 2016 at excellent +77.
The June 2019 survey also found that net satisfaction with the
performance of Duterte was excellent +76.
The SWS conducted the survey using face-to-face interviews of 1,200
adults nationwide.
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