Incumbent Senator Tito Sotto III remains the No. 1 Senate pick the pre-election survey of Social Weather Stations (SWS), whose finding are based on face-to-face interviews of 1,800 respondents nationwide.
Below is the list of the top Senate picks according to the SWS survey respondents:
1. Sen. Tito Sotto – 53%
2. Former senator Ping Lacson – 46%.
3. Sen. Franklin Drilon – 44%
4. Sen. Ralph Recto – 43%
5. former senator Kiko Pangilinan – 43%.
6. former senator Juan Miguel Zubiri – 41%
7. Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao – 38%
8. Sen. Sergio Osmeña III – 34%
9. former senator Richard Gordon – 32%
10. Former Justice secretary Leila De Lima – 32%.
11. former Akbayan Rep. Risa Hontiveros – 30%
12. Sen. TG Guingona – 26%
13. former TESDA chief Joel Villanueva – 24%
14. former Metropolitan Manila Development Authority chair Francis Tolentino – 23%
15. Valenzuela City Rep. Sherwin Gatchalian – 21 %
“The survey was conducted after the first presidential debate last February 20 and before the Supreme Court reversed the disqualification of presidential aspirant Senator Grace Poe,” reports ABS-CBN News.
