{"id":65353,"date":"2015-11-22T20:42:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T02:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=65353"},"modified":"2015-11-22T20:42:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T02:42:34","slug":"liberal-party-welcomes-dutertes-bid-for-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/11\/22\/liberal-party-welcomes-dutertes-bid-for-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Party welcomes Duterte\u2019s bid for presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_62643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62643\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/personal-profile3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62643\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/personal-profile3.jpg\" alt=\"Davao Mayor Rodrigo \u201cRody\u201d Duterte (Photo from Duterte's official website)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/personal-profile3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/personal-profile3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davao Mayor Rodrigo \u201cRody\u201d Duterte (Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/rduterte.com\" target=\"_blank\">Duterte&#8217;s official website<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Liberal Party (LP) welcomed Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s bid for candidacy, said LP\u2019s spokesperson Rep. Miro Quimbo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome his decision. Like we always say, the more candidates there are is always better for the electorate,\u201d Quimbo was quoted as saying in a Manila Bulletin report.<\/p>\n<p>The voting public will also have \u201cclearer choices since uncertainty has been removed,\u201d added Quimbo.<\/p>\n<p>The LP also urged Duterte, as well as other candidates to present the programs that they wanted to implement. The party believes that the election campaign should be about tackling issues instead of the personalities behind those issues.<\/p>\n<p>Roxas, LP\u2019s frontrunner has been reported of having a feud with Duterte that caused the two presidential candidates\u2019 fallout. Roxas allegedly circulated rumors that Duterte had cancer. Roxas has since denied this allegation. According to the same report, Roxas sent a text message to Duterte to clear his name but the mayor did not reply.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte announced his candidacy on Saturday, November 21 during a birthday party in Cavite. The Senate Electoral Tribunal\u2019s (SET) ruling on a disqualification case filed against Sen. Grace Poe that affirmed the senator\u2019s status as a natural-born Filipino citizen has prompted the mayor to run.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte believed that SET\u2019s ruling on the case filed against Poe was \u201ctotally wrong,\u201d Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano, Duterte\u2019s running mate in the 2016 election, told the Inquirer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot accept an American president,\u201d said Duterte in the same report.<\/p>\n<p>It was recalled that Martin Di\u00f1o of PDP-Laban withdrew his candidacy for president on October 29, this year. He urged Duterte to fill his slot and run for president. On Saturday, Duterte accepted the party\u2019s invitation to run. He said in the same report that he will soon file his certificate of candidacy before the Commission on Elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberal Party (LP) welcomed Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s bid for candidacy, said LP\u2019s spokesperson Rep. Miro Quimbo. \u201cWe &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":62643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-65353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-katherine-padilla","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}