Roy Señeres presidential campaign, 2016
| Roy Señeres presidential campaign, 2016 | |
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| Campaign | Philippine presidential election, 2016 |
| Candidate |
Roy Señeres (President) Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from the OFW Family Club Party List (2013–2016) Chairman of the National Labor Relations of the Department of Labor and Employment (2002–2005) Philippine Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (1994-1998) |
| Affiliation |
Partido ng Manggagawa at Magsasaka
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| Status | Announced: October 24, 2014 Launched: October 11, 2015 Ended: February 5, 2016 |
| Headquarters | Las Piñas, Philippines |
| Key people | Atty. Apolonia "Polly" Comia-Soguilon |
| Slogan | Roy Señeres, Isalba mo Bayan Ko. End Contractualization |
| Chant | "Tulungan Natin Sya!" "Amba!" "Señeres!" |
| Website | |
| www.royseneres.com | |
Partido ng Manggagawa at Magsasaka
The presidential campaign of Roy Señeres, of then Philippine congressman for the OFW Family Club Party List, was announced on October 24, 2014 and was launched on October 11, 2015. Just months after launching his campaign, Roy Señeres initially withdrawn and died few days after because of cardiac arrest.
At the time of the filing of his certificate of candidacy, Señeres was a Philippine congressman for the OFW Family Club Party List. He mostly involved in labor issues having been an Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates overseeing the plight of Overseas Filipino Workers in the gulf state including the case of Sarah Balabagan. He was also the chairman of National Labor Relations Commission.
Señeres first bared his plan to run for the Presidency on October 20, 2014, during the launch of his Respect our Security of Employment (ROSE) movement in Butuan. He reiterated his plan to run for President in the 2016 presidential election a year later during a briefing at the House of Representatives. He will run under the Partido ng Manggagawa at Magsasaka and will field a vice-presidential candidate and a 12-man senatorial slate. He formally launched his presidential bid on October 11, 2015 at the Liwasang Bonifacio in Manila.
On November 22, 2015, he launched the National Headquarters of the Partido ng Manggagawa at Magsasaka for his presidential campaign in Las Piñas.
Señeres said that he was neither expecting or soliciting campaign funds from big business firms. He noted that the other candidates are using private jets and helicopters of mall owners and said that these candidates are beholden to those who provided them transport.
For his campaign method which he dubbed as a Kalyeserye style of approach, Señeres organized small meetings on streets and other places such a parking lots of big malls. He said that the primary audience for his campaign are contractual employees of big shopping malls.
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