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Leni Robredo Campaign In Big Trouble Over The Color Pink!

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Vice President Leni Robredo’s camp may again change its signature color, after an international organization lodged a protest for the campaign’s use of the color pink.

The Robredo presidential campaign debuted the new color during the Vice President’s announcement that she was running for President in the 2022 Philippine elections. The VP changed colors from yellow to pink, a move seen by many as an abandonment of the ideals and memory of the Aquino family (Ninoy, Cory and NoyNoy) as well as the opposition Liberal Party which Robredo herself chairs.

Pink Ribbon International (pinkribbon.org) is a non profit organization dedicated to creating a global community to support breast cancer patients and promote awareness for breast cancer. One of its initiatives is ”Pink watch” in which it declares that it will publicly denounce situations that take advantage and misrepresents the pink ribbon symbol and its meaning.”

In her campaign launch, Robredo donned the pink ribbon — universal symbol of breast cancer awareness.

Rather than be humiliated and face trouble over the gaffe, the Robredo campaign said it will announce a new campaign color over the weekend.

Speculations are that Robredo could choose either violet or orange since red, white, blue and green have already been taken as campaign colors of other political parties and candidates.

Responding To Criticism, Rappler Revises Its News Headlines!

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Online news source Rappler has never been coy about its bias against President Rodrigo Duterte and the Marcoses.

Such bias surfaced yet again when Rappler reported on the announcement and subsequent filing of the certificate of candidacy by former Senator Bongbong Marcos who is running for President in 2022.

Rappler’s headlines and stories described Marcos as ”dictator’s son” and ”defeated VP candidate.”

Critical comments flooded Rappler’s’ web page and social media accounts and it was too much to bear for its convicted CEO, Maria Ressa who ordered her staff to revise all its headlines on the Presidential race.

While Rappler did not alter its headlines and stories on Marcos, it did revise its headlines and reporting on other Presidential candidates like Manny Pacquiao and Leni Robredo:

Liberal Party Ousts Chair Leni Robredo!

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The Opposition Liberal Party ousted Vice President Leni Robredo, minutes after she formally filed her certificate of candidacy for President in the 2022 Philippine elections.

Robredo, LP Chair, is running as an Independent candidate. She even adopted the pink color for her campaign, instead of the usual yellow color of the Opposition.

Sources close to the LP told The Adobo Chronicles that they unanimously expelled the VP for running as an independent, ” a blow to the long-time major influential political group founded in 1946 by Manuel Roxas and Elpidio Quirino.

The Leni ouster follows a similar move by the ruling PDP-Laban Party which automatically ousted Senator Manny Pacquiao for filing his presidential candidacy under a different banner, the Cebu-founded Progressive Movement for the Devolution of Initiatives (PROMDI). 

Moral of the story: don’t mess with political parties. Otherwise, you get kicked out!