{"id":11232,"date":"2022-04-02T04:32:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T14:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefilipinochronicle.com\/backup\/?p=11232"},"modified":"2022-04-13T04:23:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:23:13","slug":"us-filipinos-we-demand-clean-and-honest-ph-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefilipinochronicle.com\/backup\/2022\/04\/02\/us-filipinos-we-demand-clean-and-honest-ph-election\/","title":{"rendered":"US Filipinos: \u201cWe Demand Clean And Honest PH Election!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On March 27, over ten organizations and an estimated 700 people joined a \u201cWalk for Democracy\u201d event to march from Midtown Manhattan to the Philippine Consulate General in New York.

The participants are mostly supporters of Leni Robredo and Kiko Pangilinan who are running for president and vice president of the Philippines.

Organizers said the event was a way to \u201cshow our resolute unity to send a strong message that we demand a clean and honest election in the Philippines this coming May 2022.\u201d

The Leni-Kiko tandem\u2019s respective daughters who are studying in New York are also present at the event.

Jillian Robredo, the presidential candidate\u2019s youngest daughter, addressed the crowd in a speech. \u201cI know it\u2019s hard to be far from the Philippines when so much is happening there,\u201d she said in Tagalog.

\u201cBut I believe in you all who are here today standing up for democracy even if we are far away. Even though we are 8,000 miles away from the Philippines, we still care about what\u2019s happening back home, in our nation.\u201d

Frankie Pangilinan, the vice-presidential candidate\u2019s daughter, also addressed the event and its participants.

\u201cWe are all here because we would like to better the social, economic and political conditions back in our homeland, the Philippines,\u201d she said. \u201cWe would like to call on the Commission on Elections of the Philippines to have an honest, clean, orderly, peaceful, and credible election that we as a people can trust.\u201d

During the event in front of the Philippine Consulate, various organizations expressed the importance of campaigning for progressive partylists and candidates over the last month of the campaign period.

Speakers urged participants to contact their family members in the US and the Philippines who are eligible voters to cast their votes in the upcoming May 9 elections.

\u201cMillions are starving in the Philippines because of corruption,\u201d said Nida Gonzales-Chan of United Filipinos of North America. \u201cThis is a battle of good and evil. We are for the good, the truth, and clean governance.\u201d

For more information regarding Philippine voting eligibility and procedures in the US and abroad, contact your city\u2019s Philippine Consulate General or Philippine Embassy office. The full list of offices worldwide can be found here: dfa.gov.ph\/index.php\/2013-03-21-05-48-17<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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