Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque announced he will run for senator in the 2022 elections with the endorsement of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio.
“Ito na po ang huling araw na makakasama n’yo ako bilang inyong presidential spox, IATF spox at spox ng bayan,” Roque said. “Masaya akong mission accomplished na po tayo. Iiwan ko ang trabaho ko na mas mabuti kumpara sa ating nadatnan.”
(This is my last day as presidential, IATF, and national spokesman. I am happy that we accomplished our mission. I will leave my job better than when I started.)
Roque said he wants the country to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, “Iyan naman po ang dahilan kung bakit babalik tayo sa larangan ng pulitika.”
“Babalik po sana tayo sa Kongreso ng Pilipinas, doon po sa Kamara ng Senado… Nais ko pong maging action man sa Senado,” he said.
(This is why we will return to politics. We hope to return to Congress, in the Senate. I want to be an action man in the Senate.)
Roque earlier declared he would only run for senator if Duterte-Carpio would run for president. The presidential daughter filed her candidacy for vice president last week.
At the end of Roque’s press briefing, Sara Duterte in a video message endorsed his Senate run.
Harry Roque runs for senator
“Si Harry Roque, ang ating Palace spokesperson, ay magiging Senate action man,” Duterte-Carpio said. “Ibigay natin nang todo ang buong suporta natin para sa kaniyang kandidatura para sa Senado.”
(Harry Roque, our Palace spokesperson, will be a Senate action man. Let us give our full support for his Senate candidacy.)
Herminio “Harry” Lopez Roque Jr. is a Filipino lawyer, politician, and former law professor serving as the presidential spokesperson of President Rodrigo Duterte. He first served as Duterte’s presidential spokesperson from 2017 to 2018 and was reappointed in April 2020. He previously served as the Party-list Representative of KABAYAN from 2016 to 2017.
Roque taught constitutional law and public international law for 15 years at the University of the Philippines College of Law. Among the notable cases he handled are the Maguindanao massacre and Jennifer Laude cases.
He was requested by President Rodrigo Duterte to be his presidential spokesperson, and on October 27, 2017, Roque was officially appointed.
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