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| Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte |
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is strongly being urged to
run for presidential election in 2016 despite the Duterte’s continued
declination to the demands.
Meanwhile, an organized nationwide signature campaign
that will persuade Duterte is being held by his supporters that has been reaching
more and more provinces in the Philippines.
Barangay Captain Masanguid, prime mover of the
nationwide movements, told reporters that the other provincial coordinators
have already working on various areas in the region in order to gather the
needed signatures.
“These assigned coordinators to do the gathering of
signatures do not receive single centavo and they solely work as volunteers,”
Baranggay Captain Masanguid pointed out.
Recently,
Mindanaoan Reuben Canoy of the Radio Mindanao Network, the largest radio
network in the Philippines, also urged Duterte to run for the higher office.
Canoy
and Duterte had a closed-door meeting at the Marco Polo Hotel Thursday evening
along with former Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC)
secretary Pantaleon Alvarez.
According
to a source, Duterte was overheard as telling Canoy to just seek for someone
they could all support come 2016.
Canoy
and Duterte refused to give any detail on their meeting.
The operations (nationwide campaign) already
reached some LGU officials not just in Mindanao but also in Luzon and Visayas.
“Some local government officials already signified
its willingness to support and even volunteered their local coordinators to
work with our movement,” Masanguid said.
Masanguid, however, refused to name the said
officials whom the movement had already stretched.
