Former President Joseph Estrada, birthday boy and mayoral candidate in the City of Manila, has promised to deliver the city from the darkness that he said his rival incumbent Mayor Alfredo Lim has brought.
“As mayor, I would bring back the light, beauty, prosperity, and peace and order in Manila. I cannot allow our capital city to be bogged down in hopelessness and dirt of the present and past years,” Estrada, also a former mayor of San Juan City says in a Manila Standard TODAY report.
He said he would free Manila from “the claws of darkness”, a reference to a Maynila sa Kuko ng Liwanag, a 1975 film by Lino Brocka. He said he would restore Manila’s beauty and cleanliness, which he witnessed while growing up in the city. His father was city engineer under four mayors of Manila.
Estrada asked Manileños to support him and the senatorial candidates of the United Nationalist Alliance, which he formed with Vice President Jejomar Binay. His son San Juan Representative JV Ejercito Estrada is running for senator,
Estrada, ousted in 2001 and convicted of plunder in 2007, turns 76 today, April 19.