Senatorial candidate Willie Revillame reply questions of the media at a press convention in Pasig Metropolis on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. | Arnel Tacson, INQUIRER.internet
TV host turned senatorial candidate Willie Revillame mentioned he has begun to ponder the potential of changing into a senator-judge ought to Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment cross over to the twentieth Congress.
He admits he has but to “examine” the articles of impeachment in opposition to Duterte. However “be assured I’ll comply with the regulation,” he mentioned in a press convention on Friday.
“If she is responsible, then what’s there to do? I’ll vote accordingly. If she shouldn’t be, then she’s not responsible,” he mentioned.
Revillame at the moment ranks seventh to thirteenth place at 41.9 %—comfortably inside the so-called Magic 12 together with different administration bets.
Requested about his political affiliations, Revillame—whom the Vice President as soon as endorsed as a senatorial wager—mentioned: “I’m affiliated with the Filipino. I don’t affiliate myself with the federal government, with PDP-Laban, I’m impartial.”
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“That’s the reason my marketing campaign proper now, I don’t even use levels. I mingle with the folks.”
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“I feel that is the proper time for me, the proper second, to increase my assist to everybody,” he added.
Malls as polling locations
In the meantime the Fee on Elections (Comelec) on Friday signed separate memorandums of settlement with mall operators internet hosting voting facilities within the Might 12 polls.
Forty-two such institutions of SM, Robinsons, Megaworld and Ayala in Metro Manila and different cities have been chosen to host the polling locations.
Comelec Chair George Erwin Garcia mentioned “it’s time to already cease utilizing elementary colleges. There’s no violence, no vote shopping for, there’s air-conditioning, and there’s somebody to help you if you enter.” —WITH A REPORT FROM JEROME ANING
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