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Robredo back in Tarlac, Pampanga for last hurrah in campaign

Published May 7, 2022 12:55 pm

There is no stopping Vice President Leni Robredo even on the last day of the campaign period as she staged a motorcade around Tarlac and Pampanga on Saturday, May 7, hours before her grand miting de avance in the hopes of clinching more votes for the May 9 elections next week.

Vice President Leni Robredo reaches the hands of her supporters during her last caravan for the campaign on Paniqui, Tarlac on Saturday, May 7. (Photo from VPLR Media Bureau)

The Vice President is also scheduled to attend her miting de avance along the stretch of Ayala Avenue in Makati City later tonight, Saturday.

Robredo’s campaign team expects some 500,000 kakampinks to attend what could be the biggest political rally in this year’s campaign.

During her motorcade in Tarlac, supporters scrambled to touch her hands as they chanted, “Leni! Leni!”

The crowd also answered in unison, “Leni Robredo!”, “Kiko Pangilinan!” as Gab Valenciano’s “Ang Presidente, Bise Presidente” blared from the speakers.

The aspiring president waved to the crowd and flashed the “L” and finger-heart signs.

VP Leni Robredo flashes the “L” sign as she greets the crowd of kakampinks during the Tarlac motorcade. (VPLR Media Bureau)

Her motorcade brought her to Paniqui along the Paniqui-Camiling Road, where pink confetti rained down in front of the Cervantes Building, at St. Catherine Church in Gerona Market, Don Domingo, and in Tarlac City, where she passed by the Shell Gas Station, Osias College, Inc., Tarlac City Downtown, Public Market Multipurpose Cooperative, Cervantes Building, San Sebastian Cathedral (Diocese of Tarlac) Tarlac City Hall, and Iglesia Ni Cristo.

After Tarlac, Robredo passed through Mabalacat, Pampanga, along McArthur Highway in Delfin Drive before transferring to the float that took her to Xevera Plaza in front of Great Mall.

She also passed by Angeles City and San Fernando City for a whistlestop at the Robredo People’s Council (RPC) Volunteer Center.

Supporters of VP Leni Robredo wave and cheer as she travels along MacArthur Highway in Mabalacat, Pampanga. (Photo courtesy of VPLR Media Bureau)

After noon, Robredo was back in Manila for a covenant signing with National Capital Region (NCR) Tricycle Operators’ and Drivers’ Association (TODA) coalition at the Sta. Clara De Montefalco Parish in Pasay City.

In 2016, Robredo got 243,756 votes in Tarlac, edging rival, former Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. by less than 30,000 despite the province being a known bailiwick of the Aquinos.

In Pampanga, a stronghold of Marcos ally former President Gloria Arroyo, Robredo got 293,420 votes against the former senator’s 434,235.

But the Vice President’s campaign team is hopeful that Pampanga will flip to her side after her supporters there staged a 220,000-strong grand rally last month.

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