JUST IN: Jinggoy Estrada files his certificate of candidacy for senator in the 2022 elections. #TheFilipinoVotes
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Estrada filed his COC a day after his half-brother, ex-Sen. JV Ejercito. They both lost in the 2019 senatorial race | @meltlopez
@meltlopez Estrada cites track record as a former 2-term senator, saying he’s among the ‘most prolific’ lawmakers next to Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago in terms of the numbers of bills filed and passed into law.
He wishes brother JV luck: I hope both of us will win | @meltlopez
@meltlopez Estrada on what he wants to do if elected as senator: Job generation, we need to involve the private sector.
He says he will leave it to the courts to decide on his pending plunder case over allegedly misused pork barrel funds, ghost beneficiaries | @meltlopez
@meltlopez Senatorial aspirant Jinggoy Estrada says his "problems" with sibling and fellow 2022 Senate bet JV Ejercito will not do anything to solve the country's problems | @dtdyumol
Estrada, a two-term senator from 2004-2016, vows to enact laws that will provide more jobs to Filipinos especially those who are affected by the pandemic if he will be elected again in the Senate | @dtdyumol
Samira Gutoc makes it to the filing venue past 5pm. Her COC is accepted by Comelec as staff still processing 2 other sets of documents from party-lists
Comelec spokesman James Jimenez recaps Oct. 3 COC filers:
• President: 1
• Vice President: 0
• Senators: 4
• Party-lists: 10
| @meltlopez
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