Poll shows majority of Filipinos satisfied with Duterte

An independent poll released Thursday showed that more than three-quarters of Filipinos are satisfied with President Rodrigo Duterte, even though he is under fire internationally for his deadly crackdown on suspected drug dealers and users. The survey, conducted by Social Weather Stations from Sept. 24 to Sept. 27 and published Thursday, shows 76 percent of 1,200 adults polled nationwide were satisfied with Duterte’s performance, 11 percent were dissatisfied and 13 percent were undecided. There was a national sampling error margin of plus or minus 3 percent. (Image: Reproduction/Asahi) The poll comes nearly three months after Duterte took office and with his anti-drug crackdown, which has left more than 3,600 suspected drug dealers and pushers dead, raising alarms at the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and human rights watchdogs. The brash-speaking leader has been hypersensitive to such criticism, and the latest survey was carried out just before he...