The online survey conducted from March 22 to 30 targets Davaoeños from the three districts here to know their preferences on the qualities, attributes, and priorities of the next Philippine President.
The survey also aims to determine the preference of Dabawenyos for President and Vice President.
The survey also showed that 88.1 percent of Davaoeños preferred the President to have sound economic management; education followed at 88.1; agriculture and food security 86.4%; national security 85.4%; and climate change and disaster risk reduction at 80.2%.
Dabawenyos also expect that a President is honest and sincere, respects the rule of law, will continue the good programs of the outgoing administration, and respects human rights.
On the other hand, the survey also revealed that the bottom priorities for a Philippine president include maintaining peaceful negotiations with China at 68.3% reopening tourism 66.8%, and promoting federalism 57.4%.
Included in the list are attributes or qualities which include being pro-China (8.9%), being pro-United States (9.4%), having cordial relationship with the Church (36.1%), not tolerating red tape (64.6%), not easily bribed by campaign lobbyists (65.6%), has a sense of justice and rules with iron fist (67.3%), and has experience in crafting laws (68.8%).
With neither being pro-China nor pro-United States in the bottom spot and registering single-digit preference, this came no surprise after the previous IPO survey stating that 77% of the Dabawenyos believe that the country has to be neutral in external disputes or conflicts, including the Russia-Ukraine tussle just recently.
After expressing the qualities, attributes and priorities they prefer in a leader, the respondents were asked if elections were held right during the survey, whom will they vote for?
Former Senator Bongbong Marcos was the choice for President of 68.3% of the respondents, 23 percent higher than what he got in the UM-IPO December 2021 survey.
Trailing him were Vice President Leni Robredo at 12.4 percent, Senator Panfilo Lacson (2 percent), and Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno" (1 percent).
There were 15.3% respondents who were undecided.
Meanwhile, 84.9 percent of the respondents preferred Sara Duterte for vice-president candidate, which is 32.25 percent higher than last December's rating.
She was followed by Senator Kiko Pangilinan (7.9%) and Senate President Vicente III Sotto(1.5%).
Also, 5% of the respondents are still undecided on who to vote for the second highest position of the country.
IPO maintains that Marcos and Duterte enjoyed preference of the majority of the Dabawenyos.
The survey was conducted just weeks after leading polls of the country released preference ratings for the two highest positions of the country and social media was abuzz with photos and posts on organized political rallies.
Since the survey was done online as physical contact was not allowed during the time of conduct of the survey, IPO relied heavily on online surveys of Facebook users who are residents of the city, at least 18 years old, and are targeted for contact within the defined geographical radius.
A total of 1,200 respondents were contacted in random and systematically targeted.
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