PGMA to grace Team Unity rally in Iloilo City
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is expected to arrive in Iloilo City to grace the rally of Team Unity's senatorial bets and the meeting de avance of the administration's local candidates on Thursday.
This was confirmed by Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez Sr., Lakas-CMD's vice-chair for Visayas and Iloilo City Lakas chairman Mayor Jerry P. Treñas.
Treñas said they are expecting a crowd of more or less 20,000 to gather at the historic Iloilo Freedom Grandstand for the rally.
Thursday's visit would be the President's first engagement in Iloilo this year after her scheduled trip here in April was canceled.
This part of the country has been dubbed as the administration bailiwick after the Ilonggos contributed close to a million votes to Mrs. Arroyo in the 2004 presidential elections.
Meanwhile, the President's allies in Iloilo are all out in seeing to it that administration senatorial candidates will be catapulted in the top 12 positions this coming elections.
Initial information revealed that the President, from her Cebu and Bohol trips, will proceed to Iloilo City and will possibly stay overnight.
(Perla G. Lena/PNA)