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There were questions as to Racuyal’s mental stability. Among his promises should he be elected to the presidency was to construct roads out of plastic to prevent their further deterioration. When he invited Manila Mayor Arsenio Lacson to be his running mate in the 1953 presidential elections, the latter called Racuyal “strictly fiction, utterly fantastic and incredible”. Nonetheless, as time passed, his repeated candidacy provided for an amusing mild diversion to a frequently heated election atmosphere.

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THE STRANGE AND SAD CAREER OF PASCUAL RACUYAL
 
a lecture by Dr. Resil Mojares, 26 January (Monday), 4:30-6:00 pm, Faura AVR
 
The lecture revisits the mostly forgotten story of Pascual Racuyal, the quixotic “nobody” who ran for Philippine president in elections from 1935 to 1986, challenging incumbents from Quezon to Marcos.  Commonly cited as the iconic “nuisance” candidate, Racuyal (the lecture argues) deserves more respectful remembrance, as the sad clown who appears on stage to show up the idiocy and farce that characterize much of Philippine politics itself.

The lecture is the fifth in the series as part of the of the master visiting teacher program of the School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University.


Resil B. Mojares is the author of Origins and Rise of the Filipino Novel (1983), The War against the Americans (1999), Waiting for Maria Makiling (2002), Brains of the Nation (2006), and Isabelo's Archives (2013), among other books in Philippine history, culture, and literature.  In 2013 he was given the Tanglaw ng Lahi award by the Ateneo de Manila University.

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