Launchr Digital Notes
Running for President:
A total of 97 individuals manifested their intention to run for president, while 29 did so
for vice president
Significant Candidates
(PRESIDENT):
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Former Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella
Leody de Guzman, Chairman of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino
Senator Ronald dela Rosa
Former secretary of National Defense Norberto Gonzales
Senator Panfilo Lacson
Former senator Bongbong Marcos
Mayor of Manila Isko Moreno
Senator Manny Pacquiao
Vice President Leni Robredo
VICE-PRESIDENT
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Representative for Buhay and House Deputy Speaker Lito Atienza
Senator Bong Go
Senator Francis Pangilinan
Senate President Tito Sotto
PULSE ASIA 2022 Survey (February 22 to March 3, 2021)
Marcos came in second with 13 percent of the respondents picking him, while Poe and
Manila City Mayor Isko Moreno both garnered 12 percent.
“If the May 2022 elections were held during the survey period (i.e., 22 February to 03
March 2021), Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte would be declared as the winner in the
presidential race with a national voter preference of 27%,” Pulse Asia said in their
report released Thursday.
“Second place is shared by four (4) personalities who enjoy virtually the same levels of
electoral support – former Senator Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. (13%), Senator Grace Poe
(12%), Manila Mayor Francisco Domagoso (12%), and Senator Emmanuel Pacquiao (11%),”
it added.
Coming in at 6th spot is Vice President Leni Robredo (7%), trailed by Senator Bong Go
(5%), former Vice President Jejomar Binay (3 %), Senator Panfilo Lacson (two percent),
and former Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano (2%).
For vice presidential preference, 16 percent gives their nod to Moreno while Pacquiao
and Duterte-Carpio are close at second place, with both scoring 15 percent.
“Out of 12 possible candidates for vice-president in the May 2022 elections, Manila
Mayor Domagoso (16%), Senator Pacquiao (15%), and Davao City Mayor Duterte (15%)
are statistically tied for the top spot as of February 2021,” Pulse Asia said.
“Behind them in second place are Senate President Vicente Sotto III (11%), ex-Senator
Marcos (11%), Senator Go (9%), Taguig City-Pateros Representative Cayetano (7%), and
Sorsogon Governor Francis Escudero (7%),” it added.
Ernesto Abella (Former Presidential Spokesperson)
Abella filed his certificate of candidacy for president (COC) on Friday, Oct. 8 before
the Commission on Elections (Comelec) at Sofitel Tent in Pasay City as an independent
candidate.
When asked why he is running as an independent candidate instead of joining the slate
of the administration, he said: “It wasn’t offered to me.”
Abella also said that he has no political backers.
“All I know is that when I share this people high and low, they are quite open. Perhaps,
they see me as a glimmer of hope,” he said.
Abella served as the Presidential Spokesperson of President Duterte from 2016 to 2017.
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Inquirer
Ernesto Abella, who once spoke for and defended President Rodrigo Duterte, is running
for president as an independent candidate.
Abella filed his certificate of candidacy on Friday, October 8, at the Sofitel hotel, where
the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has been processing applications to run for
national office in 2022.
The 72-year-old Abella, in his hand-written certificate of candidacy, said he was running
as an independent candidate.
Abella was Duterte's first spokesperson. A little over a year into the Duterte
administration, Duterte replaced Abella as spokesperson. He said it was a "personal
decision," even as Duterte was supposedly dissatisfied with how Abella spoke on issues
facing his administration.
He said in October 2017 that Duterte might have been "fed the wrong information" that
made him think that the European Union called for the Philippines's removal from the
United Nations.
Abella then became spokesperson for the foreign affairs department. He is Duterte's
long-time friend and was among his early supporters during his 2016 presidential run.
Given his relative obscurity and avoidance of the limelight, Abella's filing for the
presidency came as a surprise as an independent candidate may not be substituted. But
the official candidates of qualified political parties have until November 15 to field
their substitutes.
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Rappler
(For the longest time, the government and the big businesses have been running the
country. The ordinary citizens, private citizens, and small entrepreneurs are not
included in the discussion.)
If elected as the country’s leader, he also seeks to provide children and senior citizens
better access to food and healthcare services.
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Philstar
Leody de Guzman (Chairman of the Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino)
Veteran labor leader Leody De Guzman filed on Wednesday, October 6, his certificate
of candidacy (COC) for Philippine president, running under his party Partido Lakas ng
Masa (PLM).
De Guzman ran for the Senate in 2019 under a historic unified ticket of warring unions,
but he ranked only 38th in the Senate's battle for 12.
De Guzman, who said he is not only seeking a regime change but a system change, runs
on a pro-worker agenda – to raise minimum wages and abolish contractualization
completely.
He has been pushing for a bill that would get rid of the middleman – a third party agency
that can sub-contract, which for him makes contractualization legal. Current bills to
end contractualization still allow subcontracting. This practice is allowed by the Labor
Code.
De Guzman shuns the elite, saying in 2019 that the Liberal Party are elites and the
Duterte regime is a tyrant.
De Guzman, with scarce resources, will bank on the dreamed labor vote. The workforce
is composed of around 50 million Filipinos, but only around 1 million are organized.
For more information:
https://www.rappler.com/nation/elections/leody-de-guzman-files-certificatecandidacy-president-2022
De Guzman, a candidate for the Senate in the 2019 midterm elections, is running under
the Partido Lakas ng Masa, whose platform emphasizes empowering workers.
He lost in the last polls, placing 38th in the senatorial race, which administration
candidates heavily dominated.
De Guzman, who is a known champion of workers’ rights, also serves as the chairman
of Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP). On the other hand, another BMP official
in lawyer Luke Espiritu will run for the Senate in 2022.
Labor leader Leody de Guzman on Wednesday filed his certificate of candidacy (COC)
with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to formalize his run for president, the sixth
day of the week-long COC filing.
In his Facebook post last Sunday, Bello said LNM has sought a meeting with Vice
President Leni Robredo to discuss “possibilities” in the 2022 elections but was left
facing a blank wall.
Bello said the coalition sought a meeting with Robredo for “nearly three months to
discuss possibilities” but was not given one, leading it to declare de Guzman as its
presidential candidate.
“Laban ng Masa (LNM) has sought a meeting with her for nearly three months to talk
about possibilities, but she and her people won’t even give us the time of day,” he said
in a Facebook post.
Bello blasted Robredo’s camp for “spurning forces” on the left, mainly when her
supporters asserted that the LNM was “dividing the opposition” by designating De
Guzman and not supporting the Vice President’s “undeclared and probably never to be
declared candidacy.”
Ronald dela Rosa (Senator)
The decision for Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa to run for president in the 2022
elections under a faction of the PDP-Laban was made long ago but was deliberately
kept secret as a tactical move, the senator himself said on Friday.
Dela Rosa said it was the PDP-Laban Cusi wing’s decision for him to run but he is also
willing.
The PDP-Laban has kept mum about its presidential candidate ever since its initially
preferred standard-bearer, Senator Bong Go, filed his COC for vice president.
Even before then, it was unsure who the PDP-Laban presidential candidate will be
because Go has not accepted the party’s nomination.
Dela Rosa’s name was never floated in PDP-Laban’s possible presidential bets, which
included Davao City mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio.
His name also did not grace any survey on Filipinos’ list of their preferred next
president.
Norberto Gonzales (Former secretary of National Defense)
ormer Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales has filed his certificate of candidacy for
president for the 2022 elections.
Gonzales, 74, filed his COC on Wednesday under the banner of Partido Demokratiko
Sosyalista ng Pilipinas.
In his speech, he said he wants to change the kind of politics currently existing in the
country.
Gonzales served as secretary of the Department of National Defense during the
presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from July to August 2007, and again from
November 2009 to June 2020.
Gonzales said his campaign will present a "new and more politically mature approach
to winning the nation's heart and its consent to govern."
"It is a strategy of mobilization and achieving national consensus to a clear program of
government and vision of the future," he said.
Panfilo Lacson (Senator)
Senator Panfilo Lacson is running on the same platform that catapulted Rodrigo Duterte
to Malacañang: a campaign against illegal drugs, criminality, and corruption
Senator Panfilo Lacson filed his certificate of candidacy for president on Wednesday,
October 6, alongside his running mate Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto III.
Branded by his supporters as the "Heneral ng Bayan (Nation's General)," Lacson is
running on the same platform that catapulted Rodrigo Duterte to Malacañang in 2016:
a campaign against illegal drugs, criminality, and corruption. But Sotto and Lacson said
they would do theirs differently
Former police chief Panfilo Lacson says the Duterte administration focused too much
on law enforcement, and not enough on prevention