Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – Presidential aspirant and former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Tuesday night, Nov 16, has made his tandem with Vice Presidential bet Davao Mayor Sara Duterte official for the 2022 polls.
Marcos said in a statement, “NAITAWID na namin ni Mayor Inday Sara Duterte ang proseso para sa tambalang inaasam-asam ng aming mga taga-suporta ang BBM-SARA sa 2022. At napagkasunduan namin at ng aming mga partido ang pagsusulong ng mapagkaisang liderato sakaling kami ay palarin sa darating na halalan sa Mayo 9, 2022.”
The former Senator has also bared that his camp has already completed the process for their tandem.
Marcos is currently running under his late father’s party – the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas, while Duterte is under the Lakas-CMD Party.
Vice Presidential aspirant Mayor Duterte told the press earlier that upon asking for support to her tandem with Marcos, the PDP-Laban party which has her father President Rodrigo Duterte has slammed her request.
Even with the rejection, the President’s daughter has continued to call for supporters from her father’s administration.
Mayor Duterte said in a statement, “Nananawagan ako ng pagkakaisa. Ang layunin natin ay hindi lamang ituloy ang mga magagandang nasimulan ni Pangulong Duterte kundi ang mas pagbutihin at mas palawigin pa ang mga ito.”
Earlier this week, the PFP party of Marcos has released a document adopting Mayor Duterte as their Vice Presidential bet after she filed her substitution papers to the Comission on Elections through a representative.
Local political experts have disclosed that the tandem of Marcos and Mayor Duterte is a ‘strong alliance’ and a power house given their ‘popular’ brands to the people coming from the North and South of PH.
Meanwhile, Senator Christopher “Bong” Go has recently withdrawn from the VP race to go for the Presidency under the Pederalismo ng Dugong Dakilang Samahan or PDDS, an allied party of the PDP-Laban where President Duterte is running for a Senate slate in 2022. TNF