TUCP to endorse Marcos-Duterte tandem in May polls

This February 2018 file photo shows members of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines rally in Cebu against labor contractualization.

Paul Jun Rosaroso, file

MANILA, Philippines — The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines will formally endorse this week the candidacies of presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, it said in a news release Sunday. 

TUCP, which has a claimed membership of 480,000 rank-and-file workers, said union members chose the Marcos-Duterte tandem in a series of caucuses that started last year. The Philippine Trade Group Workers Organization, a group under TUCP, also endorsed Marcos in his 2016 vice-presidential run.

"The vote advantage of Mr. Marcos and Ms. Duterte-Carpio and with those four other pair of presidential and vice-presidential aspirants was very wide. It was an overwhelmingly majority decision in all caucuses held differently in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao," TUCP spokesperson Alan Tanjusay said in the release.

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