Kapampangans gave presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo pink flowers, loud cheers, and a warm welcome at the People’s Rally at The Infinity in Angeles City, Pampanga on Saturday, April 9. Most of them also headed to San Fernando City to join the People’s Rally dubbed as “Manalakaran: Pampanga Grand Rally”. (VP Leni Media Bureau)
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Philippines — The crowd that came to see presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo and running mate Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan at the grounds behind the Robinson’s Starmills in this city on Saturday has grown to around 100,000 as of 6 p.m.
The estimated figure, given by Engr. Arnel Sicat, a member of the Robredo-Pangilinan People’s Council in Pampanga, to the Inquirer was made by local police and rescue forces and the organizers of the political rally.
Although Robredo has not arrived at the venue yet, the crowds of supporters have been waiting since early afternoon, clad in their pink clothes and carrying placards they made themselves.
Event hosts Ogie Diaz and Mama Loi made a swipe at former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s appeal to Pampanga voters to give vice presidential aspirant Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio a landslide win so she could help presidential aspirant former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. become a good president should he win. The two were wearing shirts with prints that said “Nanung (What) landslide?”
Former Ifugao Rep. Teddy Baguilat, who is running for a seat in the Senate under the Leni-Kiko slate, urged Kapampangans attending the campaign rally to “not pity” members of the indigenous tribe of Aetas.
“Do not pity the Aetas. Support them instead because they take care of the environment,” Baguilat said in Filipino. Baguilat is advocating the rights of indigenous peoples.
Other members of the Leni-Kiko senatorial slate who came here were senators Franklin Drilon and Risa Hontiveros and Philippine Red Cross chairman Dick Gordon, Alex Lacson, and former Makati Rep. Monsour Del Rosario.
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