PDU30 is ready to leave presidency
By Nidz Godino
” I am packing up… I have already shipped some items home, those that can be shipped…you know, the small things, tokens, bronze figures, I sent them ahead, the heavy ones,” President Rodrigo Duterte said in a taped public briefing is ready to leave his post and turn over his responsibilities to his successor.
He also said he is ready to leave Malacañang and welcome the new president.
“I await the day of turnover…matikman ko rin ‘yung feeling ng outgoing president… I will be the one to meet the new president, then I will invite him here for a tete-a-tete,” President Duterte said.
President Duterte hopes to be done moving out of his office in Malacañang by March or April.
“I am packing up… I have a little over 3 months…so I should be out by March, I won’t let it reach until April… I will not spend the night here, I will get used to sleeping wherever God puts me,” he said.
Once he is done moving out, President Duterte will go to the Palace every day to just fulfill his duties as president for the remainder of his term.
” I will just come here for my day-to-day job, what’s left of the things we have to work on,” President Duterte said.
President Duterte, 76, earlier filed his candidacy as a substitute senator under PDDS party or Pederalismo ng Dugong Dakilang Samahan, but eventually withdrew his senatorial bid.
Philippine presidents are only good for one term.
The Partido Lakas ng Masa tandem of Leody De Guzman and Walden Bello will launch their bid at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani in Quezon City, as the campaign starts.
De Guzman and Bello will be joined by labor unions, urban poor groups and homeowners associations, and environmentalists at 6:00 in the evening.
The party’s senatorial bets Luke Espiritu, Roy Cabonegro, and David D’Angelo, will also join the event.
The proclamation rally will also be available via live stream on De Guzman’s Facebook page.
De Guzman lost in the 2019 midterm senatorial elections placing 38th overall with 888,458 votes. He promised then to end job contractualization, among others.
He is the chairpman of labor group Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino and founding member of party-list Partido Manggagawa. A longtime labor rights activist, he is the country representative to the International Council of the International Center for Labor Solidarity.
Meanwhile, Bello substituted for Raquel Castillo, who filed her certificate of candidacy for vice president under PLM.
Bello is a former House representative of the Akbayan party-list but he resigned in 2015 over political differences with the Aquino administration. He is an adjunct professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton, according to Laban ng Masa.
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