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Senate old-timers filed their certificates of candidacy Wednesday as they seek re-election to continue working as legislators for the 20Presidential sister and incumbent Senator Imee Marcos submitted her COC before the Commission on Elections on the second day of filing at the Manila Hotel Tent.She went with her two sons and her mother, Imelda. Marcos is running under the Nacionalista Party, but reiterated her decision to step out of the ‘Bagong Pilipinas’ alliance.
Later in the morning, the so-called ‘macho bloc’ lawmakers—former Senators Panfilo Lacson, Vicente Sotto III, and Lito Lapid—also filed their own COCs. They hope to reunite in the Senate. The three branded themselves as the ‘macho bloc’ senators when they worked together during the Duterte administration with former senators Manny Pacquiao and Gregorio Honasan.
Lacson, Lapid, Pacquiao and Sotto already secured the endorsement of President Marcos after they were also named as part of the 12-person senatorial lineup of the ‘Bagong Pilipinas’ coalition.
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