MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau)- The filing of Certificates of Candidacy (COC) for next year’s Philippine Presidential Elections is not until October, but already, potential candidates for the top two positions of the land are firing up with their campaigns ads.
As the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will tell you, there are no violations of the election law since technically and officially, none are considered candidates until the filing of the COC.
First to release their campaign video were Senator Bong Go and President Rodrigo Duterte who have been all but endorsed by the ruling PDP-Laban, the Administration’s political party.
The Adobo Chronicles obtained a copy of the video which is scheduled to be released next week:
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – In an unprecedented move by the Philippines’ major political parties, President Rodrigo Duterte has been chosen as their common Vice Presidential bet in the 2022 elections!
The move all but assures that Duterte will be the country’s VP for 6 years starting in mid-2022. (In the Philippines, a vote for a Presidential candidate of one party is not necessarily a vote for its VP candidate. While the Constitution limits the President’s term to 6 years with no re-election, nothing prohibits him from running for VP.)
The Administration’s PDP-Laban Party revealed its 2022 line-up with Senator Bong Go for President and Duterte for VP.
The Opposition Liberal Party, acknowledging that it can not field any candidate that would defeat Duterte, chose him to be Leni Robredo’s VP running mate.
Sara Duterte’s Hukbong Ng Pagbabago also decided to launch its Duterte-Duterte line-up despite Sara’s earlier pronouncement that such a tandem would never happen.
So with these announcements, the race is on. For President. The VP race is all but moot.
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