Hindi umano nababahala si Vice President Leni Robredo sa mga resulta ng survey ukol sa tiwala at performance niya bilang pangalawang pinakamataas na opisyal ng bansa.
Pahayag ito ng tagapagsalita ni Robredo, matapos ulanin ng kwestyon ang pinakabagong Pulse Asia survey sa performance at trust rating ng ilang government official.
“This is not really a concern that the Vice President prioritizes. She does not really spend any money at all to promote herself on social media,” ani Atty. Barry Gutierrez sa isang inrterview.
Ayon kay Gutierrez, malaking bagay ang pananatili ng ratings ni VP Leni sa higit kalahati ng 100-porsyento, sa gitna ng patuloy na kritisismong natatanggap nito mula nang siya ay umupo sa pwesto.
“If you look at the previous approval rating and trust rating of the Vice President, it’s largely unchanged. If you look at it from a historical perspective, her numbers have really just revolved around 60% or so approval over the past two, three years or so.”
“And you have to consider that this is also in the face of unrelenting attacks against her on social media. So all things considered, we think this is a very positive result for the Vice President.”
Tiwala ang vice presidential spokesperson na nagagampanan ng pangalawang pangulo ang kanyang mandato kahit limitado ang pondo ng Office of the Vice President (OVP).
Katunayan, marami na raw nagawa ang OVP para matulungan ang iba’t-ibang sektor na naapektuhan ng COVID-19 pandemic.
Ang nakikita lang daw talagang hamon ng kanilang tanggapan ay ang limitado nitong platform laban sa mga nagpapakalat ng maling impormasyon.
“I think the problem is more with respect to people finding out, or getting informed, about what the Vice President is doing.”
“Since we don’t really have access to the same level of communications infrastructure as Malacañang, and we are under constant attack by trolls and other people who persist in spreading fake news online about the VP, we’re really hitting a disinformation wall and we have to deal with that every day that we are striving to work for the Filipino public.”
Binanatan ni Gutierrez ang tila panng-uudyok pa ng Palasyo, dahil sa pahayag ni Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque sa naturang survey.
“It doesn’t help when, you know, high officials, like Harry Roque, for example: upon hearing the results of the survey, he says that the Vice President is the one politicking—but he’s the one who has first transformed this into a political issue.”
Sa ngayon kasali na rin daw sa stratehiya ng kampo ni Robredo ang agarang pagtugon sa mga kumakalat na “fake news.”
“The other is try to engage the communities. So a lot of people have actually, you know, volunteered for many of OVP’s initiatives.”
“And I think that a lot of them have also realized the importance of not just working with the VP, but also talking about the work that they have been doing with the VP on social media, to counter the disinformation going out there.”
