SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta (PNA photo by Ferdinand Patinio)
MANILA – SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta is seeking a higher post as he filed his candidacy for senator on Tuesday.
In an interview, Marcoleta said he is ready for the upcoming polls with the encouragement of his supporters.
“Sa ngayon, ang aking paniwala ay ganap na akong nakahanda. Sa dami ng kababayan natin na nanawagan na sana makapaglingkod pa ako sa mas mataas na level, gusto ko pa.unlakan ‘yung panawagan na ‘yun (For now, I believe that I'm fully ready. Many people are calling for me to serve at a higher level and I want to respond to that call)," he said after filing his candidacy at The Manila Hotel Tent City.
Marcoleta is one the critics of the poll automation project of the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
He earlier accused Comelec Chair George Garcia of owning bank accounts in the Cayman Islands and supposedly receiving deposits from banks in South Korea.
Meanwhile, Peter Advincula (alias "Bikoy"), a whistleblower who surfaced in the "Ang Totoong Narco-list" in 2019, also filed his senatorial bid.
He will be using a hybrid election campaign where he will use traditional and digital forms.
Some former government officials also decided to join the party-list polls by filling their certificates of nomination – certificates of acceptance of nomination.
Among them are Aksyon Dapat party-list president and former Pangasinan congressman Nani Braganza and forrmer Department of Agriculture secretary Arthur Yap as first nominee of Murang Kuryente party-list.
Reelection bid
Rep. Alan 1 B. Ecleo likewise filed his COC for a third term in the Lone District of Dinagat Islands, along with incumbent reelectionist Vice Governor Benglen Ecleo and former Libjo mayor Lamberto Llamera, who is seeking a gubernatorial seat.
“I am overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response of my fellow Dinagatnons to my reelection bid,” Ecleo said, referring to over 1,000 Dinagatnons who showed up.
“It proves that the work we have done to lift Dinagat Islands up from the aftermath of disaster and from economic hardship is being appreciated by our Dinagatnon brothers and sisters,” he added.
Ecleo is the provincial chair of the Lakas-CMD Party in Dinagat Islands. (With a report from Zaldy De Layola/PNA)
