MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Yes, The New King is about to be Throned.
Isko Moreno Domagoso has dislodged re-electionist mayor Joseph “Erap” Estrada, according to partial, official results from the local board of canvassers.
As of 11:17 pm Monday, May 13, with more than 90% of the votes canvassed, Moreno had 329,108 votes against Estrada's 192,600 votes. Former mayor Alfredo Lim got 127,126 votes. Five other candidates garnered combined votes of 5,733.
Of Manila's 977,465 registered voters, 675,125 voted.
Based on this latest count, Moreno's running mate Honey Lacuna was also leading former Manila 5th district representative Amado Bagatsing, Estrada's running mate, by a wide lead.
Lacuna got 360,045 votes, while Bagatsing got 247,199 votes. Four other candidates had combined votes of 24,987.
Moreno, who was Estrada's vice mayor during his first term as local chief executive, ran his campaign "ON A PROMISE OF CHANGE", saying Estrada had failed in his mandate to transform Manila in his two terms so far.
Estrada – who was longtime mayor of San Juan before he became senator, vice president, and president – ran and won in Manila after he was pardoned by former president Gloria Arroyo for plunder. Estrada was born in Tondo, Manila. Estrada campaign "ERAP para sa Mahirap" is no longer winning. Maybe this is the time that the former plunderer is about to retire.
Moreno, meanwhile, grew up poor in Tondo, earning money as garbage collector when he was young until he got a break in the entertainment industry. He served as Manila councilor and then vice mayor.
In his campaign, Moreno would usually mention his being a true-blue Manileño, while there were rhetoric from the Estrada camp that Moreno lacks utang na loob (debt of gratitude).
Manila has been a killing field in President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody war on drugs.
While the police did not publicly release the breakdown per city of the over 5,000 deaths from police operations, many controversial cases have been documented in the city by human rights groups and media.
AdChoiceTV investigated summary executions in Manila, where families of slain drug personalities identified to a local cop behind the killings. In another report, In a separate investigation, AdChoiceTV investigated the links of Manila cop as also the vigilantes.
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