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Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte return to Quezon, 13th most vote rich province with 1.4M voters. Gov Danilo Suarez, Arroyo ally, backs them. Suarezes also backed Marcos in 2016, but despite that, VP Leni Robredo won here then, getting 385,164 vs Marcos' 173,394. | via @lianbuan

@lianbuan Former human rights lawyer Harry Roque pitches Uniteam to coconut farmers in Quezon, but fails to mention that coco farmers in Quezon make up a big chunk of victims of coco levy scam where Marcos and cronies used their tax to invest and buy businesses for their own benefit.

@lianbuan To entertain the crowd, Uniteam senatorial bet Herbert Bautista asks an audience member to go on stage to sing to her. | via @lianbuan #PHVote #WeDecide

@lianbuan The girl told Herbert Bautista she is being bashed for supporting Marcos and Duterte. After the rally, she is given the chance to hug the Uniteam tandem. | via @lianbuan #PHVote #WeDecide

@lianbuan After Uniteam rally in Tiaong, Quezon, unmarked vehicle gives away P50 bills to Marcos-Duterte supporters.

Election code prohibits "any person who gives, offers or promises money or anything of value..to induce anyone or the public in general to vote for or against any candidate

@lianbuan Gov Suarez says Marcos will help return P74B coco levy fund. We asked: Marcos will return what his father and cronies scammed from farmers? Suarez hits Aquino, and says it was not scam. SC has long declared San Miguel stocks as coco levy fund because it was acquired using taxes.

@lianbuan Denying that the coco levy scam was a Marcos/crony scam, Gov Suarez says the coco levy funds have been intact, just not distributed.

In G.R. Nos. 177857-58, SC declared in 2012 that Marcos and cronies bought San Miguel stocks using coco levy funds.

@lianbuan After Marcos, the criticisms against succeeding governments including the two President Aquinos is their failure to return the funds to the farmers. Every president promises, but doesn't come through - including President Duterte. | via @lianbuan rappler.com/newsbreak/in-d…

@lianbuan Suarez says their strategy for Marcos this elections is get sympathy of priests, and the sympathy of Bicolanos to switch to Marcos.

Bicol is near Quezon. | via @lianbuan #PHVote #WeDecide #PHVoteMarcos

@lianbuan It's a packed Quezon Convention Center in Lucena for the Uniteam's grand rally here in the province. Uniteam and Gov Danny Suarez has just finished meeting local officials in a hotel ballroom nearby. | via @lianbuan #PHVote #WeDecide #PHVoteMarcos

@lianbuan In what seems like a battle of artists of both sides, OPM band Southborder plays its iconic song Rainbow here for the audience in Lucena after Marcos and Duterte have left. | via @lianbuan #PHVote #WeDecide #PHVoteMarcos

@lianbuan That's it for the Cavite-Quezon leg of Uniteam. Stories to follow. | via @lianbuan #PHVote #WeDecide #PHVoteMarcos

@lianbuan Gov Danilo Suarez says the P50 bills in Tiaong later were for people to buy water: "Huwag naman sanang lagyan ng isyu. Kababayan mo, humihingi ng kaunting tulong pambili ng tubig." | via @lianbuan #PHVote #WeDecide #PHVoteMarcos

@lianbuan In Quezon, the governor denies that the coco levy scam was a Marcos scam, when cases have established that the dictator and his cronies used these taxes to invest in businesses for their own benefit. | via @lianbuan #PHVote #WeDecide #PHVoteMarcos

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