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POE KEEPS LEAD IN LAYLO SURVEY
By Joyce Pangco Pañares and Macon RamosAraneta
VOTER PREFERENCE FOR PRESIDENT December 2015 & January 2016
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SENATOR Grace Poe retained her lead over other presidential candidates in the latest The Standard Poll following a Supreme Court order stopping the Commission of Elections from disqualifying her from the May 9 polls.
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Comelec again fails to begin printing By Sara Susanne D. Fabunan THE Commission on Elections again missed its self-declared deadline to start the printing of official ballots for the May elections, the third time it has had to do so. The new target date is Feb. 15, the poll body said Monday. At a press briefing, Comelec Commissioner Christian Robert Lim said it was “automation or bust” for the May elections, since there was no longer enough time to go back to a manual system. While expressing confidence that the Comelec will be able to automate the elections, he said technical problems could cause a postponement in some provinces. Next page
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The survey, conducted by resident pollster Junie Laylo from Jan. 27 to Feb. 4 had 3,000 respondents—all of whom are registered voters with biometrics and who said they are sure to vote in next year’s elections— from 79 provinces across the country and the 17 cities in the National Capital Region. It has a national margin of error of +/1.8 percent. Poe continued to enjoy a narrow lead at 29 percent, up one percentage point from 28 percent in December. In a statement to The Standard, Poe said: “I owe this top ranking in The Standard-Laylo survey to the Filipino people, who continue to put their faith in my capacity to lead the country. They are my driving force in being unflinching in fighting for change and in pushing an inclusive platform for a progressive and just society. “I look forward to coming face to face with more of our kababayan in the campaign period.” Vice President Jejomar Binay and Liberal Party standard bearer Manuel Roxas II were tied at second place with 22 percent each, followed by Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte with 20 percent and Senator Miriam Santiago with 2 percent. Binay and Santiago saw their ratings go down by one percentage point each from the December survey. Roxas’ rating remained unchanged while Duterte went up by one percentage point. Across geographic areas, Poe led in the National Capital Region (35 percent), North and Central Luzon (37 percent), and South Luzon and Bicol (38 percent). Roxas was the top choice of respondents from the Visayas region, while Duterte firmed up his lead in Mindanao with 44 percent, up from 36 percent in December. Next page