Manila Mayor Isko Moreno Domagoso started his speech by recalling his impoverished beginnings in Tondo, Manila where he held his final campaign rally on Saturday, May 7, 2022.
Then Domagoso chose to conclude his 90-day presidential campaign by falsely framing politics in the Philippines as a conflict between two dynastic families and parties.
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But his grumblings were one-sided at best, as he railed against the campaign of survey second placer Leni Robredo while failing to mention that of frontrunner Bongbong Marcos, who is backed by the country's biggest parties and most persistent political clans. — with reports by Franco Luna