Marinduque Governor Presbitero Velasco Jr., a Duterte ally, gives a rock star welcome to VP Leni Robredo, but stops short of endorsing her for president. PHVote WeDecide
MARINDUQUE, Philippines – Marinduque Governor Presbitero Velasco Jr., a former Supreme Court justice , warmly welcomed presidential candidate and Vice President Leni Robredo to his province.
Speaker Velasco was at the capitol as well, joining his father in a private meeting with Robredo before she went to the rally. Robredo was already set to visit Marinduque on April 6, but her trip was postponed by two weeks as talks continued between her camp and the Velascos. Speaker Velasco is a close friend of Sara Duterte – in 2019, he and his wife Wen even named their newborn baby Sara Kristina, after the Davao City mayor. A year later, the Marinduque congressman managed to unseat his rival, then-Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano, When Governor Velasco was still associate justice, he had concurred in all Supreme Court rulings that favored Duterte’s policies.
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