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MANILA – House Deputy Speaker Rodante Marcoleta has backed out of the May 9, 2022 senatorial race.
In a press statement, Marcoleta said he decided to drop his senatorial bid following his “poor” rating in pre-election surveys.
“The fighter in me should also be brave enough to read the writings on the wall,” Marcoleta said.
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, in a recent one-on-one interview with Marcoleta, revealed that he was one of the people who lobbied the lawmaker to run for senator.
During the President’s Chatroom aired on state-run PTV-4 on April 9, Duterte praised Marcoleta for being a “principled man, extremely honest and a [man] with integrity.”
Duterte also lauded...