Rep. Erwin Tulfo
DAVAO DEL NORTE — Survey frontrunner ACT-CIS Rep. Erwin Tulfo noticed modest prospects of the Marcos administration’s senatorial slate right here within the bailiwick of former President Rodrigo Duterte.
Tulfo, a local of Davao Oriental, mentioned the Alyansa Para sa Bagong Pilipinas backed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. wouldn’t fare first on this area.
“Since, as somebody identified earlier, that is President Duterte’s bailiwick, all of the extra, we’re positive that we are going to not be no 1 right here, we shall be grateful already if a few of us made it right here, particularly right here in Davao,” Tulfo mentioned earlier than the press convention in Tagum Metropolis on Saturday afternoon.
The administration is fielding reelectionist senators Pia Cayetano, Imee Marcos, Lito Lapid, Bong Revilla, and Francis Tolentino; former senators Vicente Sotto III, Panfilo Lacson, and Manny Pacquiao; Home Deputy Speaker Camille Villar; former Inside Secretary Benhur Abalos; and Makati Metropolis Mayor Abby Binay.
Sen. Marcos, Cayetano, Lacson, and Villar skipped the rally held a couple of hours after the press convention.
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Tulfo additionally famous that many of the senatorial candidates of Alyansa served throughout Duterte’s presidency.
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“We hope that the individuals will resolve that possibly we won’t be embarrassed by the Alliance as a result of these candidates that you simply see on the posters are authorities officers or was authorities officers who’ve additionally labored; in addition they carried out throughout the time of President Duterte,” he mentioned.
Alternatively, Sotto sees good prospects for Alyansa on this area.
“I feel that Alyansa has good possibilities right here in Mindanao. I’m not saying that we are going to win or all of us will win, however I’ve mentioned that all of us have good possibilities right here in Mindanao as a complete,” Sotto mentioned in the identical press convention.
Alyansa’s proclamation rally kicked off in Laoag Metropolis, Ilocos Norte on Feb. 11, marking the beginning of the 90-day marketing campaign interval.
Marcos, who led the alliance’s proclamation rally, unleashed a thinly veiled salvo of assaults on Duterte throughout his speech there.
Marcos mentioned they aren’t “tainted by the blood” of the drug struggle which killed 1000’s, and didn’t profess pro-China and pro-Philippine offshore gaming operators sentiments, amongst different social ills, versus the nine-man slate backed by Duterte.
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He additionally led the second leg of the administration bloc’s sortie in Iloilo Metropolis on Friday the place he additionally reiterated robust remarks towards Duterte.
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Marcos repeated his tirades towards Duterte right here within the province which is a part of his predecessor’s stronghold.
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As soon as allies throughout the 2022 polls, the Marcoses and Dutertes have been embroiled in a tussle marked by Vice President Sara Duterte’s resignation as training secretary in June 2024.
The feud has since escalated, with Vice President Duterte revealing that she allegedly instructed somebody to kill Marcos, his spouse Liza, and cousin Home Speaker Martin Romualdez if she could be killed.
Her remarks have been one of many explanation why the Home of Representatives impeached her on February 5. Presidential son and Ilocos Norte 1st District Rep. Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” Marcos was the primary one who signed and endorsed the impeachment grievance.
Rep. Marcos mentioned his transfer was prompted by the Vice President’s threats to his household and her remarks to dig up late president Ferdinand Marcos Sr.’s stays earlier than throwing them into the West Philippine Sea.
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