Vice President Leni Robredo has no hand in the calls for other presidential candidates to withdraw from the race, her spokesman said on Wednesday, April 20, denying the allegations made by Manila Mayor Francisco 'Isko Moreno' Domagoso, Senator Panfilo Lacson, and former Defense chief Norberto Gonzales last Easter Sunday.

Spokesperson Barry Gutierrez has been Robredo’s point person for this issue since she has distanced herself from answering the attacks made by the three presidential bets.

She, however, alluded to the joint press conference a couple of times when she asked her supporters to “chill” on Sunday night and when she read witty placards about the withdrawal call of Moreno during sorties.

“We are actually surprised at the insistence of some of these candidates that it was VP Leni who was asking them to withdraw. She never did anything and in fact, in all of her public statements she has been very very clear, we are no longer pursuing active efforts in this regard,” Gutierrez told ANC’s “Headstart.”

He also denied Lacson’s and Gonzales’ allegations that they were offered money in exchange for backing out from the race and campaigning for Robredo.

Lacson earlier revealed it was former Quezon City Mayor Jun Simon who asked him to withdraw for Robredo, but Gutierrez said that the former local executive has no authority to speak for the Vice President.

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Moreno and Gonzales have yet to drop names of who spoke to them.

“Mayor Jun Simon does not speak for the campaign and is not authorized to actually speak for the campaign and whatever conversation he was pursuing that was purely his own initiative and purely on his own you know—that was his own call,” the spokesman said.

But Moreno also asked Gutierrez on Wednesday to stop talking for Robredo, despite him being her official spokesperson, and called on the Vice President to deny his allegations outright

Gutierrez, a former lawmaker, only replied, “K (smiley face).”

During a joint press conference on Easter Sunday, Moreno, Lacson, and Gonzales, together with vice-presidential bets Dr. Willie Ong and Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III, committed to finishing the race.

Moreno, however, purportedly went “off-script” and asked Robredo to back out.

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Lacson, Sotto, Gonzales, and even Ong distanced themselves from the call, saying it was just Moreno’s opinion.