Former Senator Panfilo 'Ping' Lacson has filed his certificate of candidacy (COC) to run for a fresh term in the Senate in the 2025 midterm elections. He stated he was enjoying retirement but was persuaded by former Senate President Vicente 'Tito' Sotto III to run again. Lacson aims to restore 'proper decorum' in the upper chamber.
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MANILA, Philippines – Former senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Wednesday, October 2, filed his certificate of candidacy to seek a fresh term in the Senate in the 2025 midterm elections. “We are not in a position to judge the present crop of senators, they are mature individuals…. What I’m saying is that what I witnessed under Sotto was aligned with propriety,” Lacson said in a mix of English and Filipino, in the context of a recentLacson could have run for a second Senate term in 2022, but he opted to run for president instead. He served in the upper chamber from 2016 to 2022.
“I need not reinvent myself. I pledge to continue not availing of the pork barrel allocations in any shape or form. I will continue to be a vanguard of the national budget to the best of my ability,” Lacson said on Wednesday., when he was part of the notorious Metrocom Intelligence and Security Group . Lacson claimed during the 2022 campaign that he never committed torture during that time.
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