The camp of Vice President Leni Robredo said it is the volunteers-led "People's Campaign" that would turn election survey results in favor of her presidential bid and eventually help her win the race.
Robredo's spokesperson, Barry Gutierrez, said the vice president's survey rating is in a "clearly upward" trajectory as the May 2022 elections near.
"With 87 days left in the campaign, the push of that People’s Campaign, the push of those many, many small groups in various communities all over the Philippines, I have no doubt that (this) will change minds, that (this) will change hearts," Gutierrez said in an interview over ANC on Friday, Feb. 11.
"Even (if) this ends up to be a very close race in the end, I have no doubts that they will be able to pull it through on the strength of that People’s Campaign," he added.
The People’s Campaign includes online and physical campaign activities initiated by supporters of Robredo across the country to back her candidacy.
"I have been in several presidential campaigns, several national campaigns, and this is literally the first time I’m seeing this level of volunteers support and volunteer engagement. People self-organizing, self-financing, initiating their own activities within their own communities and we’ve seen several big examples of this in the past months," Gutierrez said.
"The intensity, the energy, you can see it, you can feel it. And I have no doubt that that is what (is) responsible for bringing us to where we are right now, you know, 12 points higher than where we were in September," he noted.
While Robredo's camp acknowledged that her rival former senator Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos, Jr. has been topping pre-election surveys, Gutierrez said the vice president is currently gaining momentum less than three months before the polls.
"We feel we are in the position we want to be and so long as the numbers keep going up in the next few weeks, then we are on track to(ward) actually pulling this out by May 9," he added.