Leni Robredo

Philippines presidential candidates geared up for final rallies on Saturday to galvanise support and win over undecided voters, two days from an election ...

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A record crowd of 700000 attended the last rally of Vice President Leni Robredo in Makati on Saturday, two days before Election Day.

It also pointed out that data from Google Trends indicate that Robredo has a chance at winning, being the most-searched presidential candidate. “It’s natural for this hope to spread, to flow through each one of us. “Tomorrow, it’s no longer allowed to do house-to-house [campaigning]. It’s also not allowed to make public declarations of support. but I can’t see at the very end any of the people who are with us now,” she said in Filipino, the predominant language she uses in public addresses. This was way bigger than the birthday rally for Robredo last April 23 in Pasay City, which attracted over 400,000 participants. When I declared my candidacy, some of you who were there, I can just count them easily in front of me now.

In the latest OCTA Research April 2022 nationwide election survey, BBM once again maintained his lead with 58 percent, while Vice President Leni Robredo is ...

Worst of all, among the top officials of the land, Robredo is the least trusted, with a negative -9.9 percent trust rating in a recent Publicus Asia survey. The third, but equally important reason why I won’t be voting for Robredo on Monday is that she doesn’t have the necessary track record for the office of the presidency. In any case, my choice not to vote for Robredo on Monday is a personal one after much thought and realization. The CPP-NPA is the longest-running insurgent group in the world. The Marcos-Duterte ticket will most likely adopt a more balanced, pragmatic, and constructive independent foreign policy. The aspirant must be someone who won’t end up a puppet or proxy of any country for that matter but someone who will pursue a more balanced, pragmatic, and independent foreign policy. This only shows the massive potential of the deepening, flourishing, and pragmatic economic and trade bilateral relations between the Philippines and China. A Robredo presidency means a more pro-US-leaning Philippine government, which will negatively impact and compromise the country’s friendly relations with China. Take note that the Philippines president is the sole architect of the country's foreign policy. The country has benefited economically from the warming relationship with China when President Duterte implemented more friendly relations with the giant neighbour. Under the Duterte administration, the total trade volume between China and the Philippines has doubled compared with the total trade volume during the Aquino administration. In the latest Pulse Asia presidential survey held from 16 to 21 April, BBM maintained his lead with 56 percent voting preference, while his closest rival, Vice-President Leni Robredo, garnered 23 percent.

Supporters of Leni Robredo and Kiko Pangilinan pack Ayala Avenue in a final show of force for the tandem.

It was 4:30 pm and the program was expected to reach up to late night. Like many parents who support the tandem, the Ybascos said they were doing this for their child. She said she still saw hope, especially in the people who stood with her on Saturday. “Kinikilabutan ako (I get goosebumps),” she said, describing how she felt whenever she listened to the presidential candidate’s speeches. She first trooped to Sta. Rosa in Laguna when it turned pink on April 29. She left Biñan, Laguna, at noon and arrived in Ayala Avenue around 1 pm.

Hundreds of thousands of supporters of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his closest rival, Leni Robredo, clog Philippine capital's streets.

Robredo, 57, is a lawyer who served in the House of Representatives before being elected vice president in 2016. “We stayed in one of the hotels to witness and support our candidate. We will ask our friends to give us a lot of coffee so that no one will fall asleep. Because we know if we sleep a lot of things are happening. The location of Robredo's rally was symbolic, Reuters news agency said. Robredo initially expressed reluctance to join the race but was persuaded by an opposition coalition who considered her the only candidate who could beat what is seen as an extension of the Duterte administration in Marcos Jr. She has portrayed herself as the stabilizing candidate and the preferred choice of the business community. Marcos Jr. and Robredo are part of a slate of 10 candidates for the president’s post, the remaining eight of whom are now mostly inconsequential, analysts have said. Supporters of presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and vice-presidential candidate Sara Duterte-Carpio, cheer during their final campaign rally before the 2022 national elections, in Paranaque City, Metro Manila, May 7, 2022. Meanwhile, in another part of the city, Jose Andoy, in his 30s and from the northern Manila suburb of Caloocan, said he took a free bus ride to get to the huge field in suburban Parañaque city that hosted the Marcos Jr. rally. “Tonight, let's celebrate one historical campaign. So let's go! Robredo was looking to woo undecided voters in her final campaign push Saturday. Around 450,000 of her supporters – all clad in pink, the candidate’s campaign color – turned the day into a street party as they converged on her rally on Ayala Avenue in Makati district.

The last show of force for supporters of VP Leni Robredo & her runningmare Sen. kiko Pangilinan before the end of the campaign period has turned into a ...

All of which were followed by a change in leadership for the nation. However, during the program some of the LEDs and speakers did not function, but were later fixed. Among them a massive anti-dictatorship protest before the fall of Ferdinand Marcos in the 1980s, and the funeral procession of the late democracy icon Corazon Aquino in 2009.

The Philippines' 10-way presidential race will be decided on Monday (May 9), when millions of voters head to the polls. Pre-election surveys favour ...

But the volunteer movement inspired by his main rival, Vice President Leni Robredo, could see a form of victory beyond the polls. Pre-election surveys favour Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr, the son and namesake of the late dictator. The Philippines' 10-way presidential race will be decided on Monday (May 9), when millions of voters head to the polls.

Up to 65 million Filipinos are eligible to cast ballots on Monday to decide on the successor to President Rodrigo Duterte after six years in power.

“We are confident Leni can win.” “I am so happy because he’s close to taking office as the next president. Marcos Jr has been criticized for his lack of a policy platform and for dodging debates and media appearances, a strategy that has minimized scrutiny and allowed him to generate support on social media among voters born long after his father’s rule.

TOP presidential bets Vice President Maria Leonor "Leni" Robredo and former Senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. topped the two final surveys conducted ...

Meanwhile, Team Angat Buhay's Robredo and Pangilinan have dominated a national survey conducted by an "independent team of researchers, scientists and scholars" from across the country. In the vice presidential race, UniTeam bet and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio was on top with 61 percent, followed by Senate President Vicente Sotto 3rd and Sen. Francis Pangilinan, with 13 percent and 12 percent, respectively. Robredo also had the least number of undecided voters with 21.8 percent, followed by Marcos, 26.7 percent and Moreno, 41.9 percent. Domagoso slid from 6.51 percent in the second week of April to 5.59 percent in the third week and 4.8 percent in the last week of the same month — weeks after the Easter Sunday press conference wherein he called on Robredo to withdraw from the presidential race. Robredo led in the number of decided voters with 78.2 percent, followed by Marcos, 73.3 percent and Domagoso, 58.2 percent. WRN said support for Marcos increased by nearly 1.6 percentage points compared to his 55.6 percent preference in the third week of April, while Robredo's dropped by nearly 1.4 percent or equivalent to 19.2 percentage points.

The battle for the presidency may be uphill.But Vice President and presidential candidate Leni Robredo remains hopeful that she could...

It is a vote for the oppressed, a vote for the victims of human rights, a vote for the poor, hungry and the sick,” former Iloilo governor Arthur Defensor said in an emotional speech. From Aklan, Robredo proceeded to Tibiao town in neighboring Antique province where she spoke before 5,000 supporters at the municipal plaza. “We are in the homestretch of the campaign…We came back to thank you. You have remained undaunted despite all the odds against us,” she said. Robredo thanked her supporters in Negros Occidental and Bacolod City for all their help and hardwork in campaigning for her, Pangilinan and the rest of the team. “People are just so hungry for change and want to fight for this country.

With prominent election surveys indicating Marcos Jnr will likely clinch an easy victory over Leni Robredo, some businessmen say they are 'surfing the web' ...

Vice-President Leni Robredo is only genuine challenger to Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos jnr in Monday's presidential election and drew hundreds of thousands ...

Our vote is for the Philippines, it’s not for ourselves.” “We’re doing this for everyone with all the colours, it’s not just pink. “Instead of convincing other voters who are not necessarily with them from the very start, it turns off the voters really.” “I also attended some Leni rallies,” he said at the Marcos event. Robredo is running as an independent, not for the Liberal Party, as she did six years ago. “She’s the cleanest of all the candidates. He is the son. Josie Cosa, a retiree from Las Pinas outside Manila, is behind Marcos “because of his heart”. “I’ve felt his love for our country,” she said. He is one who took advantage of the ill-gotten wealth. She towers over the other candidates.” “She has the best track record. “Red tagged” as a communist sympathiser during the campaign and the victim of other disinformation tactics, Robredo has tried to combat Marcos’ potent social media machinery with an army of volunteers making house-to-house visits.