Supporters of PDP-Laban presidential candidate and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte from Marikina City are ready for the Duterte-Cayetano tandem motorcade from the Marikina Freedom Park to Our Lady of Perpetual Succor College in Marikina City on Tuesday (April 12, 2016). (PNA photo by Joey O. Razon)
MANILA, Apr 13 (Mabuhay) – The camp of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said they are expecting more black propaganda and personal attacks as the campaign period heads to the final stretch.
“We have been seeing old issues being resurrected with more intensity. The vilification campaign against Mayor Duterte will reach new heights now that he has taken the lead in voter preference,” Leoncio Evasco, Duterte’s national campaign manager and outgoing Maribojoc, Bohol mayor said on Wednesday.
“Having overtaken them in surveys, they now find themselves trailing and they want to pull us down by throwing everything imaginable at the Davao City mayor—all of them not flattering,” he said.
The statement came after Vice President Jejomar Binay posted a video urging Filipinos not to vote for Duterte.
Evasco said he is confident that Duterte will be able to handle all the attacks, pointing out that truth is on their side.
“We are not presumptuous, but we have been expecting this. Whether we are at the bottom, middle or top, people who are threatened by a Duterte victory will employ all means to destroy his image and reputation. That is the name of the election game in Philippine politics, unfortunately,” he added.
Evasco then closed his statement urging supporters to rally behind Duterte whom he described as “our last card.”(MNS)