MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): Manny Pacquiao, who rose to world fame with a phenomenal boxing career before somewhat fading in a lacklustre political career, has thrown his hat in the presidential arena as the standard-bearer of a faction of the PDP-Laban, the ruling party now divided by his political tussles with President Rodrigo Duterte.
The 42-year-old boxer-turned-lawmaker said “yes, I accept” to his nomination on Sunday (Sept 19)during a “national assembly” of his faction of the party that he and Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III, this faction’s chair, had called.