Campaigning for candidates running for national elective posts, an exercise often characterized by mudslinging, chaos, and violence among election bets and their avid supporters, officially begins today. These candidates are those running for president, vice president, senators, and seats in the party-list elections. For candidates running for local elective positions, official campaign period starts on March 25, 2016. Interest in the campaign is likely to be centered on the crowded presidential race to succeed President Aquino, who has won global applause for six years of strong economic growth and a bruising anti-graft campaign. Those who are vying to succeed President Aquino are Vice President Jejomar C. Binay of the opposition United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte of the PDP-Laban; independent candidate Sen. Grace Poe Llamanzares; former Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas of the administration Liberal Party (LP); and Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago of the People’s [...]
