Robin Padilla joins PDP-Laban faction, 2022 poll plans not yet clear
MANILA — Actor Robin Padilla has joined a faction of the PDP-Laban backed by President Rodrigo Duterte, the group revealed on Tuesday, 3 days before the filing of candidacies for the 2022 elections closed.
Padilla and his brother Rommel took their oaths as PDP-Laban members before Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi, as seen in photos released by the faction he leads. "Please wait for the official announcement," Melvin Matibag, secretary general of the Cusi wing said, when asked if Padilla was running in the 2022 polls. Actor Robin Padilla, his brother Rommel take oath as members of PDP-Laban, according to a party faction backed by President Duterte.📸Melvin Matibag, SecGen of PDP-Laban Cusi wing | @jmnpunzalan pic.twitter.
"Ang tinitingnan natin dito winnability. Siyempre tinitingnan din natin dito track record at relationship sa pangulo," Matibag said, when he bared an initial list of potential Senate contenders in August. Padilla is a staunch supporter of Duterte, who granted him executive clemency in 2016. The actor was convicted of illegal possession of firearms in 1994. He was released after being granted conditional pardon by former President Fidel Ramos 3 years later.
The Commission on Elections has yet to rule on whether the Cusi faction or the rival group led by Sen. Manny Pacquiao is the legitimate representative of PDP-Laban.
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