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MANILA: Filipinos want the next administration to maintain President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs and its approach in infrastructure development, according to a survey done by public opinion research firm WR Numero Research. The poll released Sunday also suggests that voters want changes in the way the Philippines approaches the West Philippine Sea issue and ABS-CBN’s franchise renewal, PhilStar reported.

WRN arrived at the 2021 survey results after conducting a digital survey with 1,200 unique respondents. The survey had a 95% confidence interval from a panel that consists of respondents across all classes. The firm said it used data from the Philippine Statistics Authority and the Commission on Elections for its quota sampling and proportional weighting method to “avoid overrepresentation and underrepresentation” of the four demographic profiles — socio-economic, geographic, sex and gender, and age.  Majority or 66.06% of its respondents want the next administration to continue the Duterte administration’s Build, build, build infrastructure program. 

Public spending for the government’s BBB program was estimated to reach up to P9 trillion from 2017 to 2022.  Meanwhile, 64.60% of the survey respondents are in favor of keeping the country’s 112 state universities tuition-free.