Three percentage points separated the Marcos administration’s late-June trust rating from where it stood in the previous round, according to Tangere’s newest nationwide poll — an uptick that left the government at 32 percent, up from 29 percent.
Satisfaction with the administration moved by the same margin, landing at 35 percent against a prior 32 percent.
Neither figure was enough to shift the broader picture. Filipinos who distrust the administration and remain dissatisfied with its performance still outnumber those who do not, Tangere said.
The poll was not commissioned. Fieldwork ran from June 23 to 27, 2026, reaching 1,500 respondents through a mobile-based application, with participants drawn from the National Capital Region, Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao under stratified random quota sampling. The margin of error stood at ±2.30 percentage points at a 95 percent confidence level.
Individual Cabinet officials fared considerably better than the administration as a whole. Education Secretary Juan Edgardo Angara led the trust rankings at 50.23 percent, trailed by Social Welfare Secretary Rex Gatchalian at 47.96 percent and Science and Technology Secretary Renato Solidum Jr. at 43.48 percent. Labor Secretary Francis Tolentino registered 43.10 percent and Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella III 42.51 percent.
Rounding out the ten most trusted were Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac at 41.75 percent, Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. at 41.44 percent, Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon at 40.13 percent, Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa at 39.37 percent, and Foreign Affairs Secretary Ma. Theresa Lazaro at 38.97 percent.
The satisfaction list put Gatchalian on top at 48.0 percent, with Angara at 46.3 percent and Solidum at 44.1 percent. Tolentino followed at 42.0 percent, while Estrella and Cacdac each recorded 41.9 percent. Dizon posted 41.3 percent and Herbosa 41.0 percent, with Information and Communications Technology Secretary Henry Aguda at 40.2 percent and Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. at 39.8 percent completing the ten.
Tangere Chief Executive Officer Martin Penaflor said the two sets of numbers measure different things: trust ratings reflect how the public assesses the performance and leadership of individual government agencies, while satisfaction ratings indicate how Filipinos perceive the quality of government service delivery and responsiveness.
