Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, September 30) — About 75% of adult Filipinos support the single six-year term limit for president as provided by the 1987 Constitution, a Social Weather Stations survey shows.
Conducted last June 23-26, the survey also found that 11% of adult Filipinos disagree with the Constitutional provision on term limit for president while 14% were undecided.
Agreement in all areas was very strong, the SWS said. Visayas was highest at +75 (83% agree, 8% disagree), followed by Mindanao at +64 (75% agree, 11% disagree), Metro Manila at +61 (75% agree, 13% disagree), and Balance Luzon at +60 (72% agree, 11% disagree). The net agreement score was +64, classified by the SWS as very strong also.
Those who disagreed proposed an average of 7.1 years for the term limit, while their proposed average number of terms was 2.1.
Respondents from Metro Manila who disagreed recommended an average of 8 years per term, while those from Balance Luzon wanted 7.7 years, those from Mindanao suggested 6.5 years, and those from Visayas proposed 5.4 years.
The recommended number of terms was 2.4 in Mindanao, 2.3 in Metro Manila, 2 in the Visayas, and 1.8 in Balance Luzon.
Across educational levels, “very strong” net support was also observed.
“It was +62 (74% agree, 12% disagree) among non-elementary graduates, +68 (77% agree, 9% disagree) among elementary graduates, +65 (75% agree, 10% disagree) among junior high school graduates, and +54 (72% agree, 19% disagree, correctly rounded) among college graduates,” the SWS said.
Among those who disagreed, college graduates recommended the longest term limit of 9 years, followed by junior high school graduates with 7.8 years, elementary graduates with 5.1 years, and non-elementary graduates with 4.6 years.
The recommended number of terms averaged 2.5 among junior high school graduates, and 1.8 among non-elementary graduates, elementary graduates, and college graduates.
The SWS survey was conducted through face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adult Filipinos across the country.
The sampling error margins were ±3% for national percentages and ±6% for Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao.
