Opposition Senator Panfilo Lacson dismissed the result of a recent survey done by the social Weather Stations (SWS) which said that opposition candidate Fernando Poe Jr would benefit if the former withdraws in the presidential race.

Lacson said he has learned from various sources that results of various surveys have been rigged to suit the sponsors of the polls.

He added that he has met several respondents who claimed that surveys should be denounced, because they were 'not truthful'. Malaya, an opposition paper, wrote about a certain Evangeline Lim, who claimed she was one of the respondents of the SWS in the survey done last January.

Malaya printed her story, which said a pollster had confessed that Lacson was the favourite candidate of many respondents.