MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – In the Philippines, it’s called “Miting de Avance,” or the last and final campaign rally of candidates running for elective posts.
By law, candidates are prohibited from further campaigning the day before, and the day of the elections which is on Monday, May 9.
The camp of Davao City Mayor and presidential candidate frontrunner Rodrigo Duterte will hold its miting de avance at the Burnham Green section of the Rizal National Park from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday.
The Duterte campaign announced today that U.S. Republican presidential presumptive nominee Donald Trump will be attending the rally as a very special guest.
Duterte has often been called the Donald Trump of the Philippines. Both men have changed the tone of political campaigning, often delivering statements and speeches that are both controversial and radical by normal standards.
Trump had been wanting to personally meet Duterte but was kept at bay by his rigorous campaigning in the U.S. primaries. But now that both of Trump’s remaining opponents have quit the race, he says that he now has the time to take a much-needed break and fly to Manila to meet Duterte.
“If we will both be world leaders, we might as well start hanging out with each other now,” Trump said.
Trump is also rumored to be exploring the possibility of building what could be the world’s tallest Trump Tower in Makati City, bailiwick of another presidential candidate, VP Jejomar Binay.
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – While debate rages in the United States over anti-transgender legislation such as those recently passed in North Carolina and Mississippi, the Congress of the Philippines has begun the construction of a gender-neutral bathroom (called “comfort room” in the Philippines).
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