Metro goes green as Lakas holds motorcade

MANILA, Philippines - As the campaign period for local candidates started yesterday, the administration party Lakas-Kampi-CMD launched a caravan that turned Metro Manila’s major roads into a sea of green.

More than 25,000 supporters clad in green shirts lined EDSA, Taft Avenue in Pasay City and Monumento in Caloocan City, waving green flags as Lakas standard-bearer Gilbert Teodoro passed by. Green ribbons were tied to lampposts and street fences along these roads.

Prior to the motorcade, Teodoro; his running mate, Edu Manzano; and the administration’s six senatorial candidates forged a “green covenant.”

By signing the covenant, the candidate commits to work toward clean and honest elections as well as policies that will realign and refocus government resources, the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, promote universal primary education, gender equality, women empowerment, for lasting peace, harmony and abundance and equal opportunities for all Filipinos.

Green is Teodoro’s party color and it symbolizes his party platform of clean government, healthy life, well-preserved nature, consistent economic growth, hope for a bright future, government on the go and love for country and its people.

“Faced with the urgency of the many socioeconomic and political problems besetting the nation, we advocates of the Green Team signed this covenant with the Filipino nation to publicly manifest our commitment to public service,” Teodoro and the rest of his partymates declared.

After the covenant signing, Teodoro and Manzano held a motorcade along the stretch of EDSA, Taft Avenue towards Caloocan City and back to the Lakas-Kampi-CMD headquarters at the CMLC building along EDSA in Mandaluyong City, where they were greeted by thousands of supporters in green at every stop.