By Gabriel F. Cordero
Ring legend and current WBA welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao is eying a run for president of the Philippines in 2022. The eight-division world champ originally got into politics in 2009 and won a senate seat in 2016. Incumbent president Rodrigo Duterte is ineligible for re-election and the election to decide Duterte’s successor will take place on May 9, 2022. In the meantime, the 41-year-old Pacquiao is expected to continue to fight for one more year. He may next fight in oil-rich Bahrain, which is reportedly looking to bankroll some major boxing events.
What better way to seek a political endeavor by using one’s stardom as a method of public exposure for votes. Many US Presidents have done the same and it worked. Ronald Reagan as a movie star and Trump as a business tycoon/TV show celebrity. I am sure there are many more, but these two pop into my mind. No, I am not saying this is a bad thing, simply pointing out factual methods in how the general public can recognize someone for possible support.
This is how it all begins. Manny wins the presidency. Then congressman Erik Morales will get elected Mexico’s president. The two nations will begin fueding and we will end up with Pacquiao Morales IV, and it will be a bigger war than the first.
maybe but we all know how that fight will turn out
I will vote for him – he is a great man.
I would have loved to have seen Chuck Norris run as Trumps VP for 2020. The democratic cabal that controls the media have brain washed the public into thinking he is a wooden actor with no political skills. He is a true patriot.
But yes how great would it be to see Manny as president a man for the people.
No one cares about your political views. This is about Pacquiao’s presidental run. Can we give the democratic gang vs republican gang a rest for one minute geez!
The US President and the Philippine President is an interconnection. A globalist agenda if you will – all these people are puppets. Manny is one of my all time favourites the way he’s conducted himself and the humility he has displayed throughout his boxing career has been exceptional. I wish him all the best and I have told him personally that he will always have my vote.
In your dreams Manny Fuckyaw!
he would make a horrible president he knows nothing about economics
Anyway he can’t be as bad as the asshole who is ruling your great country today.. Rodrigo Duterte is a crazy and dangerous man, Manny is a lovely guy who cares about people’s. I wish him the best to win his toughest fight to date : winning the presidential election.
Good luck Manny !
many is only good in boxing but running and representing a country is not possible he can barely
speak tagalog and English to talk about issues