Bong Go: “Bakuna muna bago pulitika.”
BONG GO – The incumbent senator is “still not interested” in running for president in the upcoming 2022 elections.
Earlier, PDP-Laban endorsed Go to be the party’s standard-bearer in next year’s poll.
PDP-Laban, headed by Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi endorsed Go through a resolution alongside President Rodrigo Duterte as its vice president.
While Duterte accepted the endorsement, as confirmed by party executive vice president Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, Bong Go stressed that he is still not interested.
“I am still not interested,” he said. “Mas mabuti unahin niyo na muna yung mga interesado na tumakbong Pangulo.”
Senator Bong Go said that he will focus on his work in the Senate first before anything else.
Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Tesoro Go has been serving as a Senator since 2019.
But before being elected as senator, he served in President Rodrigo Duterte’s Cabinet as Special Assistant to the President (SAP) and Head of the Presidential Management Staff from June 2016 to October 2018.
Go has served as the personal aide and special assistant to Duterte since 1998, back when Duterte was still mayor of Davao City.
At present, he is the chairman of the Senate committee on health and demography.
Meanwhile, incumbent Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, Senator-boxing champ Manny Pacquiao and Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson are said to be among the top candidates in the presidential elections.
However, the three are yet to confirm if they are running for the said position or not.
The filing of candidacy for the 2022 elections will be this coming October.
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