Refrain from participating in race? ‘This battle is bigger than any of us put together,’ Robredo said

‘Hindi na tayo magsi-spend ng time na makipag-away sa ibang kandidato,’ says the presidential candidate

During a chance interview on Thursday, April 21, Vice President Leni Robredo stated twice that she is not interested in reacting to claims made by her political opponents in the last weeks of the campaign, as well as calls for her to drop out.

Robredo was challenged about Manila Mayor Isko Moreno’s “challenge” for the Vice President and her campaign to deny that they had been pressing candidates who were trailing in opinion surveys to drop out of the race at a campaign visit in Bogo City in vote-rich Cebu province.

In a combined Easter Sunday news conference, Moreno, Senator Ping Lacson, and former Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales all stated that they will not withdraw from the campaign. Moreno, on the other hand, went the additional mile and urged that Robredo should drop out of the campaign, despite the fact that Robredo was significantly ahead of all of them in pre-election voter choice polls, but still a distant second to front-runner Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

In 2022, Robredo noted that the election will be “exceptional.” While this is almost true for every presidential election, the 2022 race has Marcos Jr., the late dictator’s son, as the front-runner in the voter choice survey.

The country is likewise at a fork in the road, having endured two years of unrest and economic suffering as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It was also at that tumultuous Easter Sunday news conference, where the three presidential candidates reacted to a falsely reported comment to Robredo, that she predicted that if she lost, pandemonium would result. During the same news conference, Moreno was corrected, with a reporter claiming that he had made the claim in an interview with a pro-administration blogger.

Senator Kiko Pangilinan, Robredo’s running partner, and their Senate slate barnstormed Cebu on April 21, their second visit to the vote-rich province since the campaign began.

Before hosting a huge event in Mandaue City, the duo and their slate graced three campaign rallies in Northern Cebu: Bantayan Island, Bogo City, and Danao City.

Works Cited:

Cupin, Bea. Withdraw from race? ‘This fight is more than all of us combined,’ says Robredo. 21 April 2022. https://www.rappler.com/.../robredo-response-moreno.../. 22 April 2022.