‘Lalaban tayo’: Leni Robredo, opposition leader, to run for president
‘Lalaban tayo’: Leni Robredo, opposition leader, to run for president
October 7, 2021
Vice President Leni Robredo finally responds to her supporters’ mounting calls to unify and rally all dissenting voices against President Rodrigo Duterte
By Mara Cepeda
MANILA– Leni Robredo, Philippine vice president and leader of the opposition, has finally decided: She is running for president in the 2022 elections.
“Buong buo ang loob ko ngayon – kailangan nating palayain ang sarili mula sa kasalukuyang sitwasyon. Lalaban ako. Lalaban tayo. Inihahain ko ang aking sarili bilang kandidato sa pagkapangulo sa halalan ng 2022,” Robredo announced on Thursday morning, October 7, reading from a prepared speech that she wrote herself.
(I am firm in my resolve – we need to free ourselves from the current situation. I will fight. We will fight. I offer myself as a candidate for president in the 2022 elections.)
In announcing her candidacy, which she formalized hours later, Robredo said she wants to put an end to the incompetence, corruption, and culture of violence that has persisted under the Duterte regime.
She said she was not only a mother to her daughters Aika, Tricia, and Jillian, but also a mother figure to all other Filipinos suffering under Duterte’s rule.
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