‘It’s time for the downtrodden to win,’ Pacquiao says on declaring bid for presidency


Pacquiao accepted on Sunday, his nomination by PDP-Laban as its standard-bearer in the 2022 presidential race. With him on stage was Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III, son of the party founder, the late former Sen. Aquilino Pimentel Jr. - Office of Senator Pacquiao Read more: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/?p=1489987#ixzz76yDLJwMq Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook

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.

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