From the Manila Shimbun on February 5th
Mr. Bonbon is absent from the debate program again. Five candidates including Mr. Robledo attend.
Mr. Marcos was absent from the debate program on the participation of presidential candidates sponsored by the Philippine Broadcasting Bureau, but Mr. Robledo and five other candidates attended.
The online debate program for presidential candidates in May this year was recorded on the 4th, sponsored by the Philippine Broadcasting Station Federation (KBP), which is a member of television and radio stations nationwide and their managers. It is a full-scale discussion program that is simultaneously distributed to more than 300 member companies nationwide, such as major TV broadcasting stations and AМ / FМ radio stations, and the differences in policies of each candidate are clearly understood through interviews with well-known TV casters. It was a great opportunity for a voter, but Bonbon Marcos, who runs alone in the polls, was absent because he had "another appointment." Marcos also forgot to appear on a television interview with commercial broadcasters GМA's presidential candidates last month.
Vice President Robledo was in contrast to Mr. Marcos. According to Vice President Twitter, Mr. Robledo attended an online debate on the morning of the 4th, renting a computer at an office near the airport just before boarding a domestic flight from Manila Airport to visit the disaster area of Typhoon Odette. Comments on the SNS are spreading that Mr. Marcos, who is reluctant to hold a debate, is "weak" to the Vice President who participated in the debate and developed his own theory by cutting lunch time.
After all, Vice President Robledo, Senator Laxon, Mayor Moreno Manila, Senator Pacquiao, and Degusman Labor Mass Party leader participated in the debate. KBP Chairman Hermann Basbanyo sent an invitation to the six candidates, according to an English-language newspaper star on the 3rd. Had revealed that he had arrived. And on the 4th, ABS-CBN, a major commercial broadcaster, announced on Facebook that Mr. Marcos had appeared on the same station's cooking program recorded at the same time as the online debate program. In addition, prominent caster Korina Sanchez, who hosted the show, reported on Twitter that "I'm sure I requested the show, but it was the Marcos officials who specified the date and time." There is.
Marcos explained that the reason why he forgot the TV interview program of GМA was that "host Jessica Soho has a prejudice as an anti-Marcos family." After this, he responded to a one-on-one interview with another TV show and a program on the radio station DZRH, but on the January 28 interview program scheduled for the GМA radio station DZBB, he said, "To Dabao. I haven't been able to connect to the internet, so I hurriedly canceled the appearance.
In the debate program on the 4th, five candidates interviewed about various policies and problems such as drug crackdown, measures against domestic communist armed groups, infrastructure policy and Manila Bay landfill project, legalization of online chicken fighting and government corruption problem. Received and explained their own positions. (Kinobu Sawada)
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