LAKAS-Christian Muslim Democrats (CMD) Chairperson Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte has topped the latest survey of Publicus Asia, Inc. for the vice-presidential position and maintained her big lead over the other candidates who are also running for the same post.

The Lakas-CMD vice presidential candidate notched 56.5 voter preference based on the survey – Pahayag Tracker 2 (PT2) — that was conducted from March 9-14 by Publicus and whose results were made available on Thursday.

Publicus said the PT2 was a nationwide sampling survey that was participated by 1,500 respondents who were randomly drawn from a market research panel by the Singapore office of PureSpectrum, a company based in the United States.

The respondents came from the National Capital Region (NCR), Central and Northern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

According to Publicus, the results of the survey showed Duterte, who is also the Chair of the Lakas-CMD, has maintained her voter preference percentage from the previous two surveys, one of which was conducted in February.

“Her latest figure is in line with her polling numbers in the previous two surveys of Publicus. It can be inferred that she is hovering around the 55 percent mark,” the firm said.

Duterte’s 56.5 voter’s acceptance, which also reflected a gain of 3 percent when compared to the results of the two surveys, were too high for rival Senator Francisco Pangilinan, who came in second with 12.8 percent.

The same survey results also showed Duterte’s presidential tandem, former Sen. Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos,” leading the pack with 55.1 percent voter preference.

The Publicus survey validated the results of other previous surveys by firms, organizations and even private pollsters which showed Duterte leading the vice presidential race and notching 53-55 percent voters’ acceptance.

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Ryan Ponce Pacpaco