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Friday, January 29, 2010

Roxas wins youth vote: survey

Liberal Party vice presidential candidate and survey frontrunner Sen. Mar Roxas is clearly the choice of the youth, as shown by recent surveys held in various universities in the country, a press release from his office said.

Roxas had two-digit leads over his rivals in surveys conducted at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City; the Centro Escolar University in Malolos, Bulacan; the Holy Angels University in Pampanga; the Catanduanes College in Catanduanes, Nueva Ecija; and the Negros Oriental State University in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental.

At the Negros Oriental State University, some 1,684 students or a rating of 49.17 percent picked Roxas in the survey done during the period December 7 to 11, 2009. Legarda got 22.68 percent and Binay, 15.5 percent. Lakas-Kampi-NUCD vice presidential candidate Edu Manzano’s name popped up with a rating of 12.65 percent.

In UP Diliman, the Visayan senator got 4,582 votes or a 40 percent rating in the survey conducted during the period December 8 to 11, 2009. Vice presidential bets Sen. Loren Legarda (NP-NPC) got a mere 13 percent while Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay (UNO-PMP) got 12 percent, the press release said.

Roxas got a high 56 percent rating in the January 15, 2010 survey conducted in CEU-Malolos. Legarda and Binay were tied at 13 percent.

Sixty-four percent or 3,688 of Holy Angels University students in Pampanga chose Roxas over Legarda, who only got 23 percent and Binay, with only 8 percent. The survey was done last January 13, the press release said.

At the Catanduanes College in Nueva Ecija, a survey conducted on January 22 showed Roxas getting a 44.17 percent rating (or 446 votes) while Legarda got 23.99 percent and Binay, 16.14 percent.

Roxas is running on a campaign for reforms and good governance alongside Liberal standard bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III. He has pledged “not to steal” from the government and to open his bank accounts for public scrutiny once he wins in the May 10 national elections, the press release said.

The 52-year old senator gave up his presidential bid in September to give way to a public clamor for Aquino to run following the death of his mother, the late President Cory Aquino.

He is the author of Republic Act No. 9502, known as the Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008, which made quality but affordable medicines more accessible to the people, the press release said.

He is hailed as the “Father of the BPO Industry” for pioneering the establishment of high-technology industry centers and the promotion of the business process outsourcing market in the Philippines, particularly call center operations.

From a mere 2000 jobs at the onset, the BPO industry now provides hundreds of thousands of jobs, putting the Philippines on the map as a major IT/BPO destination, the press release added.*

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