Tulfo, Go top Filipinos' 'nice list' of senators

Raffy Tulfo and Bong Go are among the leading senators in the "nice list" of Filipinos, according to a November 2025 study by research firm WR Numero.

For the survey, respondents were asked to imagine themselves as Santa during the holiday season and identify which among the 24 sitting senators are "naughty" and which ones are "nice."

Nearly half of them put Tulfo first on their "nice" list at 47%, followed by Go with 37% and Sen. Robin Padilla with 33%.

Other senators who made it to the "nice" selection are Sen. Erwin Tulfo with 27%, Sen. Tito Sotto with 23%, Sen. Rodante Marcoleta with 21%, Sen. Bam Aquino with 20%, Sen. Bato Dela Rosa with 18%, Sen. Kiko Pangilinan with 17%, and Sen. Risa Hontiveros with 16%.

Only 5% of the respondents marked Sen. Jinggoy Estrada as "nice." He topped the "naughty" list with 35%, followed by Sen. Imee Marcos (27%), Dela Rosa (25%) and Sotto (25%), and Sen. Ping Lacson (19%).

Hontiveros (18%), Sen. Chiz Escudero (18%), Sen. Joel Villanueva (17%), Padilla (15%), and Go (15%) were also part of the "naughty" list.

At the bottom of the "naughty" selection was Sen. Pia Cayetano with 6%.

The nationwide survey was conducted from Nov. 21 to 28 via face-to-face interviews with a sample of 1,412 Filipinos residing in the Philippines. It had a ±3% margin of error.

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