MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / Dec. 14, 2012) – Cagayan Rep. Jack Enrile remains one of the most favored among 32 candidates for the 2013 senatorial polls, according to the latest Pulse Asia survey.
Enrile, who is also the son of one of the country’s most influential and respected political leader and namesake, Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile, placed 5th in the survey conducted in November.
Pulse Asia President Professor Ronald Holmes said the survey asked Filipinos their senatorial preferences for the May 2013 elections.
Holmes said the survey fieldwork was conducted from November 23 to 29 using face-to-face interviews. “As in our previous surveys, this nationwide survey is based on a sample of 1,200 representative adults 18 years old and above. It has a ± 3% error margin at the 95% confidence level.”
“Sub-national estimates for each of the geographic areas covered in the survey (Metro Manila, the rest of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao) have a ± 6% error margin, also at 95% confidence level,” Pulse Asia said, adding in keeping with its academic nature, no religious, political, economic, or partisan group influenced any of these processes.
It said Pulse Asia undertakes surveys on its own without any party singularly commissioning the research effort.
Enrile is running under the United Nationalist Alliance of Vice President Jejomar Binay.
The young Enrile has been in public service for 10 years now starting as an elected representative in 1998 and serving a full term of 9 consecutive years until 2007 for the First District of the Province of Cagayan.
Independent minded, he has stood up for fairness and equity believing that uplifting the lives of Filipinos can only be done if one empowers them and involves them in the process and levelling the playing field for every Filipino is important to Enrile “since it is the only way one can rise to confront poverty and hunger.”
The original author of Batas Kasambahay or the Magna Carta of Household Helpers (HN553), Enrile is also author of Anti-Trust (HN549); increasing the allowable personal and additional exemptions of individual taxpayers (550); reducing the income tax rates of individual taxpayers (HN551); defining the crime of home invasion, among others.
Enrile is a member of the following committees in the 15th Congress – Accounts, Agriculture and Food, Appropriations and Way and Means and a strong advocate of food sovereignty and credit card reform. (With a report from Francis Hidalgo, Jr.)
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