Comelec installs 10 podiums for debate even if Marcos Jr. won’t show up

  MANILA, Philippines --- The absence of Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. in the presidential debate organized by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Saturday, March 19, would be more palpable. This, as the poll body still set up 10 podiums -- one for each presidential candidate in the May 2022 elections -- for the debate that will be held at the Sofitel Hotel tent in Pasay City. Only nine presidential candidates have agreed to join the event dubbed as "PiliPinas Debate": former presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella; labor leader Leody de Guzman; Manila City Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso; former Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales; Senator Panfilo "Ping"...

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