Ex-ES Vic Rodriguez files candidacy for senator for Eleksyon 2025

Former executive secretary Victor Rodriguez on Tuesday filed his certificate of candidacy (COC) for senator for the 2025 Midterm Election.

If given a Senate seat, Rodriguez said he will lead the “true opposition.”

“Ang direction naming simula ng akin sinamahan nung kampayang huli ay patungo sa good governance and to temper the greed and to temper corruption at Nakita ko na kabaliktaran yung aking na witness. Napakarami counterflow at iba yung direction nila ayaw nila to temper the greed and to temper corruption,” Rodriguez said.

(Our direction from the beginning, with the one I accompanied during the campaign, was towards good governance and to temper greed and to temper corruption and I witnessed the opposite. There are so many counterflows and their direction is different. They don't want to temper the greed and to temper corruption.)

Rodriguez also said that he would work on a resolution authorizing liquidation by certification.

“I think the more important thing we should all oppose whether elected or not, whether ordinary Filipino, ay yung talamak na corruption at talamaka na corruption, at higit pang talamak na corruption (is the spread of corruption),” he said.

Rodriguez is running as an independent candidate.

Rodriguez was appointed as the first executive secretary of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. where he held the position for less than three months in 2022.

Former Catanduanes governor Leandro Verceles Jr. Courtesy: Manny Vargas/ Super Radyo dzBB

Also running for senator is former Catanduanes governor Leandro Verceles Jr. under the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP). Verceles is advocating for the use of artificial intelligence in reforming the country's education sector and traffic woes.

"I've been in politics for 15 years but I can see post-EDSA the country is not going the right way…I don't have the answers but we have the two answers for education and traffic basta we have the confidence the people will bring us there," Verceles Jr. said.

—VAL/ VDV, GMA Integrated News