The successor chosen by the Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte, announced this Tuesday (30) the withdrawal of his candidacy for the 2022 presidential elections, saying that the time is not right.
Senator Christopher Go, a friend of Duterte’s, entered the election two days before the November 15 application deadline, after first including his name as a candidate for the vice president.
Duterte cannot run for a second six-year term, according to the Constitution, and will run for a seat in the Senate.
“My family doesn’t, so I thought maybe this isn’t my time,” Go said.
Go said that with the decision to abandon the campaign, he intends to avoid more problems for Duterte, whom he declared “to love more than a father”.
Several analysts pointed to little chance of Go’s victory in the May elections, despite being considered the candidate who would most protect Duterte from criminal charges in the country and by the International Criminal Court for his brutal war on drugs.
“From the beginning he campaigned poorly and it was obvious that he was put up as a candidate by President Duterte,” said Jean Franco, professor of political science at the University of the Philippines.
The son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, of the same name, is the favorite for the elections, according to a recent poll by the Social Weather Stations institute.
Next up are Leni Robredo, current vice president and Duterte critic, Manila Mayor Francisco Domagoso and boxing star Manny Pacquiao.
Many believed that Sara Duterte, the president’s daughter, would seek his succession, but she announced her candidacy for vice president in an alliance with Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
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