Poe jokes her favorite lucky No. as CoC filing nears

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

DAGUPAN CITY – Just like many superstitious candidates, does this country’s polls’ leader senator have a favorite lucky calendar date when to file her Certificate of Candidacy (CoC) a few days before the deadline set by the law?

Caught surprise by the posed of this paper, Senator Grace Poe jested here that her favorite number is what will hit the elusive 12 numbers’ combination of the jackpot P903, 290,152.00’s Ultra Lotto that made the betting population of the Philippines crazy for several weeks.

“Ganoon? Ako iyong favorite number ko sana iyong kung ano mga lalabas sa lotto,” she said as the crowd who overheard it chuckle.

The re-elective solon cited that everybody will be assured about that undisclosed date when she files already her CoC.

The deadline for the filing at the Commission on Election (Comelec) will be on October 11 to 12 and 15 to 17 this year.

Many candidates from the high office's congressmen to the lowly members of the municipal council called Sanggunian have been customarily preoccupied with illusions on dates like “15” and “16” as their most favorite days to troop the Comelec. 
They reasoned that these days give them more chance to win the acrimonious and expensive election

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In the last filing of the CoC in the April 14 to 21, 2018 Barangay (Village) Election, candidates for the village chiefs in Pangasinan, the province of Poe’s father actor Fernando Poe, told this paper that “18” was phenomenal.

A bet said that the diagonal and curve lines of ocho or “8” in 18 goes up to the end point.

“Pataas e, saka itong araw na ito araw na pinakamatigas”. 

Amansabina, Mangaldan bet Salvador Visperas de Guzman cited that “15” brought luck too to candidates because the singko or “5” has an upper end tip point.

He explained that “15” and ‘16” were the luckiest numbers in the six days filing of CoC’s period  as dictated by the Lunario or Lunar Calendar.

De Guzman lost however to a moneyed candidate who did not believe about the ‘craps” brought by the Lunario.

Earlier, Poe and her son Brian Poe Llamanzares told media men that she was ambivalent to seek reelection in the May 13, 2019 election.

One of her reasons was the overload of works in the Senate while being an independent maverick legislature, Llamanzares told this paper.

Meanwhile, Poe lauded the Bureau of Fisheries & Aquatic Resources – National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (BFAR-NIFTDC) here for its program that tremendously benefit the aqua culture industry while it trains fishermen and fish growers.

After she sent to the sea a giant turtle surrendered by fishermen to BFAR-NIFTDC Chief Dr. Wesley Rosario, Poe told reporters that she was familiar with the water and sea dwelling specie as her mother, Ilongga actress Susan Roces, had a similar pet when she was a kid.

“Actually, may alagang pagong ang nanay ko noon. So familiar ako diyan. Tuwang tuwa ako kasi ang gaganda ng mga pagong,” she stressed in Tagalog.

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