Victor Lawag (comelec.gov.ph photo)
Need a world savior to strengthen your senatorial ticket in next year’s elections? How about giving Victor Lawag a chance?
Wearing eyeglasses and dressed in black pants and black polo, the 61-year-old Lawag on Wednesday came to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to file his Certificate of Candidacy (COC) and offer himself up as a guest candidate of any major party contesting the 2013 polls.
“This is the opportunity to take my hand,” Lawag, who wore a beard and a long hair whipped up in a ponytail, told reporters after formalizing his candidacy.
All that the administration coalition or the opposition United Nationalist Alliance needs to do to get him is to “adopt me so I can lead,” he said.
With the Liberal Party’s senatorial slate already full, Lawag’s invitation appeared to be directed at the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), which has yet to complete its roster following the last-minute withdrawal of businessman Joey de Venecia.
Lawag said he was willing to be the “brain(s) of the country so I can save you and give you progress for the future of our nation.”
World ends in December
He sounded firm in his belief that the world would end in three months.
“It would be in December,” Lawag said when asked when he thought mankind would cease to exist.
“Do you know why the world is going to end?” he said, adding: “Because the world is conquered by evil forces and there is only one who can save the world and that’s Victor Lawag.”
By evil forces, Lawag meant those who are “selfish, greedy and corrupt.”
Lawag seemed to be updated with current affairs and sounded like he was not averse to using violence to defend what belongs to the Philippines.
Asked what he thought of the territorial dispute between the Philippines and China over Scarborough Shoal, he replied: “That belongs to us. That’s in our territory and the ones who try to invade my home, I have to shoot them down. Why? Because this is my country.”
Lawag is among a number of colorful aspirants who have announced their intention to run for the Senate in the May elections.
One candidate who showed up Wednesday was a dentist who said he would run on a platform focusing on climate change. Another was a woman who only said she came from Tondo, Manila, and claimed to have numerous supporters in Bulacan province.
Not really a bad day for mediamen staking out at the Comelec to watch the procession of people trying to save the republic.
On the first day of the filing of COCs on Monday, one candidate said he was an “heir” to a supposed descendant of Raja Soliman and allegedly the rightful owner of the Philippine archipelago.