SOME 400,000 people clad in all shades of pink gathered for what was both a campaign and a birthday rally for Vice-President Leni Robredo in a show of force meant to demonstrate that she is very much in the running to become the next president of the Philippines.
Her supporters, who began assembling at noon on Saturday, filled a sun-baked, 2km stretch of an eight-lane highway just south of the capital, Manila.
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