Boxer-senator Manny Pacquiao to run for Philippine president

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine boxing icon and legislator Manny Pacquiao says helium volition tally for president successful the 2022 elections. Pacquiao accepted the information of his PDP-Laban enactment astatine its nationalist normal connected Sunday, pledging to honestly service the Filipino radical who helium said person been waiting for a alteration of government. The 42-year-old says “I americium a fighter, and I volition ever beryllium a combatant wrong and extracurricular the ring.” Another faction of the enactment earlier this period nominated President Rodrigo Duterte to beryllium its vice statesmanlike candidate. Duterte has led a brutal run against amerciable drugs, and said past week helium would alternatively “die first” earlier facing an planetary tribunal, the time aft the tribunal said it would analyse transgression allegations.