Pacquiao pitches jobs, justice as he banks on voters from Visayas and Mindanao

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With an emphasis on his rags-to-riches story, Sen. Manny Pacquiao officially starts his opening salvo for the 2022 presidential elections in home town General Santos City on February 8, 2022.

Philstar.com / EC Toledo

 

GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines — Thousands of individuals—Christians, Muslims and indigenous peoples—from different parts of Mindanao gathered in General Santos City’s Oval Plaza on Tuesday to witness the formal launch of Sen. Manny Pacquiao’s presidential campaign.

 

The presidential hopeful said he decided to hold a campaign kickoff in his hometown because "this is the place where my dreams started."

 

Speaking mostly in Bisaya, Pacquiao told the crowd of an estimated 25,000 people how difficult it was growing up poor, and how corruption exacerbates poverty and slows economic development in the country.

 

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