Philippines Vice-President holds campaign rally

Tens of thousands of supporters attended a campaign rally in Manila on Saturday by Philippine presidential candidate and standing Vice President, Leonor "Leni" Robredo. Robredo said the importance of the election was to decide on the future of the Philippines and not "a simple quarrel between candidates."

According to the latest polls, she is in second place behind former Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of the late Ferdinand Marcos Sr. Both have vowed to bail out a country with decades-long insurgencies, and which the COVID-19 pandemic deepened an already high economic inequality. More than 65 million Filipinos have registered to vote in the country and another 1.8 million overseas.