Poe camp to Duterte: There is nothing to ‘unmask’

Senator Grace Poe and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. INQUIRER FILE PHOTOS

“Sorry to disappoint them, but there is nothing to ‘unmask.’”

This was how Senator Grace Poe’s spokesman, Valenzuela Mayor Rex Gatchalian, responded on Thursday to an alleged plan by Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s camp to shift the focus on her and “unmask” her.

Poe and Duterte are neck-and-neck in the presidential race based on latest surveys.

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“Senator Poe has been forthright with the details of her life from day one. She has been transparent and honest with the facts of her life even about her childhood. In fact, her trustworthiness is one of the virtues Filipinos saw last elections when they elected her number 1 in the Senate race,” Gatchalian said in a statement.

Poe topped the senatorial race when she first ran in 2013.

“We will let them chart the course of their campaign as they wish, but our campaign will focus on laying down the details of Senator Poe’s platform of governance: ‘Gobyernong may Puso,’” the spokesman added.

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Gatchalian said the elections should be about what candidates can do for the people “and not about what your opponent supposedly is.”

“For us, addressing the decades old problems of poverty and unemployment will be our message,” he said.

“We believe it is time to bring in fresh perspectives to solve these decades old issues. All the social ills our country is facing stems from poverty. It is time to uproot poverty,” he further said. JE

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