MANILA: Both the opposition United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) and the administration Team PNoy coalition urged Social Weather Stations (SWS) and Pulse Asia yesterday to identify the financiers of their surveys.
UNA campaign manager Navotas Representative Tobias Tiangco accused SWS of refusing to disclose the funders of its surveys, which he said was a violation of a resolution of the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
“We have formally written them asking them to disclose their subscribers who are paying for the surveys, but they refused,” Tiangco said.
For his part, Team PNoy spokesman Marikina Representative Miro Quimbo said the administration coalition is supporting UNA’s call for pollsters to disclose their subscribers and funders.
“But the more important issue to us is the result of their surveys, not who is subscribing to these opinion polls. We are leading 9-3 in the latest SWS survey and 8-4 in the Pulse Asia poll,” Quimbo said.
Tiangco said they are not questioning the survey results but UNA is taking issue with SWS for its alleged refusal to reveal its survey financiers.
Quimbo said Team PNoy candidates Bam Aquino and Grace Poe were the biggest gainers in the latest surveys, while two to three UNA candidates were the biggest losers.
He said Poe’s ranking shot up despite United Nationalist Alliance’s decision to drop her as guest candidate, along with senators Francis Escudero and Loren Legarda.
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