At least 20 individuals have already filed their certificates of candidacy (COC) in a bid to join the race for the highest position in the country since the beginning of filing last Friday (Oct. 1).
Among the advocacies of the aspiring presidential candidates are climate change mitigation, COVID-19 response, corruption eradication, free education, and more affordable electricity rates.
Below is the list of aspiring presidential bets as of Oct. 4, 2021:
Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso
Party: Aksyon Demokratiko party
Upon his filing on Oct. 4 morning, Domagoso said he will be addressing a “divided and indecisive nation,” and wishes to heal the country for a brighter and better future.
Domagoso is running with online personality Dr. Willie Ong who also ran for Senate in 2019.
Sen. Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao
Party: Progressive Movement for the Devolution of Initiatives or Probinsya Muna Development Initiative (PROMDI)
Pacquiao has made clear that he intends to focus on the country’s pandemic recovery, and boost the country’s internet speed and lower electricity rates. He wishes to give the people a brighter future and provide more job opportunities amid economic recovery. He said he will also be tackling corruption.
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Romualdez Marcos Jr.
Party: Partido Federal ng Pilipinas
Marcos wishes to unify the country as it faces the COVID-19 pandemic and an economic crisis. He says the country now needs a unifying leadership.
Sen. Panfilo Lacson
Party: Partido Para Sa Demokratikong Reporma
Lacson aims to return the people’s trust toward the government. Lacson filed his COC on Oct. 6, together with his running mate Senate President Tito Sotto. This is the senator’s second attempt to run for the presidency.
Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Gerona Robredo
Party: Independent
Robredo announced her presidential bid for 2022 and filed her COC on the second to the last day of filing on Oct. 7. The current Vice President said she is ready to fight to free the country from its current situation.
Jimmy Torres
Party: Kilusang Bagong Lipunan
Torres will help the country rise from poverty and hunger. He will continue the Duterte administration’s Build, Build, Build project.
Sahiron Salim
Party: Independent
Salim will help the government and the country in addressing issues such as graft and corruption, illegal drugs, traffic problems, and criminality.
Norberto Gonzales
Party: PDSP
Gonzales aims toward changing the ‘rotting’ politics in the Philippines. He believes that the country’s scientists and the medical community must be given more recognition in the fight against COVID-19. He also plans to call for national mobilization.
Happy Lubarbio
Party: Independent
Lubarbio has yet to share their advocacy.
Luzviminda Raval
Party: Independent
Raval is for the people, nation, environment, and the Lord.
Dolores Quiarao
Party: Independent
Quiarao has yet to share her advocacy.
Edencio Fronda
Party: Independent
Fronda has yet to share his advocacy.
Dante Martirez
Party: Fem Com
Martirez will tackle issues such as tax reform, nutrition, and education.
Leodario de Guzman
Party: PLM
De Guzman is for the workers. Laws that take from workers should be changed, he said. The workers’ voices must be heard and listened to.
Ramon Asuelo
Party: Independent
Asuelo will tackle transportation issues in the Philippines.
Laurencio Yulaga
Party: Philippine Green Republican Party (PGRP)
Yulaga plans to come up with solutions to the garbage problem in the Philippines as well as climate change and poverty. He also mentioned nanotechnology to help the country.
Leysander Ordenas
Party: Independent
Ordenas was a “pandemic mitigator” in Africa and said he has come back to help the country “recover faster” from the pandemic.
Dave Aguila
Party: Independent
The fitness coach was among the first personalities to file his COC on Oct. 1. He has yet to share his plans and advocacies.
Dr. Jose Montemayor
Party: Democratic Party of the Philippines
The cardiologist vowed in his speech on Oct. 1 to “eliminate” corruption, criminality, and COVID-19.
Edmundo Rubi
Party: Independent
Rubi promised to provide Filipinos, mostly senior citizens, free housing, electricity, and retirement income. He also plans to give every Filipino a total of P5,000 every month. He said he wants free education and free hospitalization.
Sonny Boy Andrade
Party: Independent
Andrade wishes for the unity of the country and the proper implementation of the Constitution.
Alfredo Respuesto
Party: Independent
Respuesto filed for candidacy on Oct. 4 at around 10:28 a.m. and has not yet shared his plans for the country.
Faisal Mangondato
Party: KKK
Mangondato joined the senatorial race in 2019, where he is known to have supported federalism. He also rejected in a media interview in February 2019 the proposed lowering of the age of criminal responsibility to 12.
Leo Cadion
Party: Philippine Green Republican Party (PGRP)
Cadion said in his speech that his party aims to improve the FIlipinos’ living conditions and pointed out that only a hundred families are ruling the country, adding that they have made politics a “family corporation.”
Delia Aniñon
Party: Independent
As a former overseas Filipino worker (OFW) from Zamboanga, Aniñon said in her speech that she would “welcome investors” in the country to generate more jobs and cut taxes.
Melchor Juno
Party: Independent
Juno is a seafarer who is pushing for unity in the country. He said the rule of law must be observed and that the poor should be given a voice.
Tiburcio Marcos
Party: Independent
His COC was filed through a representative on Oct. 3 and was the eighth COC filed for the presidential race.
Juanita Trocenio
Party: Independent
In her speech accompanied by a song on Oct. 4, the engineer called on Filipinos in her quest for the country’s real change.
Renato Jose Valera
Party: Independent
He said the only track record he can be proud of is his large family consisting of 13 children and a spouse. He said he wants to be the father of the nation who will bring back the government to the people through a plebiscite in 2025.
Winston Kayanan
Party: Independent
Kayanan filed his COC past 4:00 p.m. on Oct. 4 and has yet to share his advocacies.
Gabriela Larot
Party: Independent
Larot’s COC was filed at 10:51 a.m. on Monday and has yet to share her political plans.
Maria Mercedes Pesigan
Party: Independent
The aspiring presidential candidate filed her COC on Monday. Similar to some personalities who filed during the day, Pesigan has yet to disclose her plans.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said it will screen all the aspirants’ COCs before issuing an official list of candidates for the May 2022 elections. AG, PG- bny
