MANILA, June 20 Kyodo Philippine ...

MANILA, June 20 Kyodo

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's public approval rating further dipped from 48% in April to 426% in June a take a view of showed Thursday.

Social Weather Stations, the most numerous active social survey institute in the Philippines, said its May 17 to June 3 view of 1,200 respondents nationwide showed a ''serious decline in public satisfaction with the Arroyo administration.''

''(The decline) is principally likely due to public dismay from one side of to the other the recent increase in electricity rates, reminiscent of the mid-1995 rice crisis during the Ramos period,'' it said in a statement, referring to shortages of as it is basic commodities as rice during the administration of former President Fidel Ramos.

''The greatest in number plausible cause of this decline is the general increase, on whatever name, in the electricity bills of a great many Filipino households,'' it said.

It said Arroyo's without deductions rating improved in Metropolitan Manila if it were not that fell elsewhere in the cessation of the main Luzon Island, in the central Philippines and in the southern Philippines.

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