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Duterte blasts 'bully mayor' in Pasig campaign rally

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Michael Joe Delizo, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/life/05/11/20190511-pdp-laban-senatorial-gc.jpg"/><figcaption>President Duterte raises the hands of the PDP-Laban senatorial candidates during their miting de avance at the Philippine Sports Arena in Pasig City on May 11, 2019. <em>George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday lashed out at an unnamed mayor for supposedly bullying a candidate during his speech at his political party Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan’s (PDP-Laban) miting de avance in Pasig City.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/11/19/alam-ko-sawang-sawa-na-kayo-sa-amin-pdp-laban-bets-make-final-push">READ: ‘Alam ko sawang-sawa na kayo sa amin’: PDP-Laban bets make final push</a></li></ul><p>He did not mention a name, but ranted about political dynasty. “Ito kasing Pilipinas, the politics here are being claimed by the elite, ‘yung mga mayayaman na matagal na sa politika at pabalik-balik na lang,” he said.</p><p>His statement drew cheers from Pasig residents.</p><p>The city&#x27;s mayoral race involves a heated rivalry between 29-year-old councilor Vico Sotto and incumbent mayor Bobby Eusebio, whose family has been in power since 1992.</p><p>Sotto has been crying foul over supposed bullying in his campaigns, making it hard for him to secure permits to conduct rallies.</p><div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/817103638348316/posts/2321272437931421?sfns=mo" data-width="auto"> </div><p>“Pinapatayan ng ilaw, walang stage?” Duterte said.</p><p>“Patay ka. Itong a***** na ito, pinapalusot ko lang eh,” Duterte said. </p><p>He warned: “‘Yung ganon na klaseng politiko, bastos ‘yun, you do not belong in politics. Bantay ka sa akin. Do you want me to embarrass you before your constituents? Just let me know, I will do it.”</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">President Duterte raises the hands of the PDP-Laban senatorial candidates together with other guest candidates during their miting de avance at the Philippine Sports Arena in Pasig City on May 11, 2019. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Halalan2019?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Halalan2019</a> | via George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News <a href="https://t.co/dK6u14csJu">pic.twitter.com/dK6u14csJu</a></p>— ABS-CBN News (@ABSCBNNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews/status/1127205775628296192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2019</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>The event was PDP-Laban’ final push to lay down its platforms, primarily to continue the administration’s crackdown on drug crime and corruption, for a chance for bigger voter awareness after the 3-month campaign period.</p><p>“I’d like to say that we must have law and order before we can really be a nation that is safe and secure for our people,” Duterte said. “We must be freed of corruption in the government.”</p><p>PDP-Laban members at the miting de avance, which they call MaBaGoKoTo, were former top cop Bato Dela Rosa, Duterte’s close aide Bong Go, Maguindanao congressman Dong Mangudadatu, senator Koko Pimentel, and former presidential political adviser Francis Tolentino.</p><p>Pimentel, the party president, boasted PDP-Laban’s edge as dominant majority party, as declared by the Commission on Elections on Thursday.</p>

<p>President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday lashed out at an unnamed mayor for supposedly bullying a candidate during his speech at his political party Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan’s (PDP-Laban) miting de avance in Pasig City.</p>

President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday lashed out at an unnamed mayor for supposedly bullying a candidate during his speech at his political party Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan’s (PDP-Laban) miting de avance in Pasig City.

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Duterte blasts 'bully mayor' in Pasig campaign rally

Michael Joe Delizo,

ABS-CBN News

Published May 11, 2019 10:39 PM PHT

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Updated May 12, 2019 02:35 AM PHT

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Vico Sotto

Robert Eusebio

Pasig City

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Bong Go

Rodrigo Duterte

Bato Dela Rosa

Dong Mangudadatu

Koko Pimentel

Francis Tolentino

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