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They also used different tacks in an apparent attempt to be unforgettable. One gave away free shirts and showered onlookers with coins before he left, another proposed marriage to a television reporter. Others distributed press releases enumerating their platforms of government.

They gave their names as Daniel Magtira, Aeric Bernardino, Anicio Escosura, Mel Chavez and Melito Lagata. Most of them, it turned out, were “regulars” at the Comelec around this time of the election season.

A first-time applicant, Salam Lacan Luisong Tagean, from Camarines Sur, said with conviction that he decided to run for senator to give land to the landless. He came wearing a vest and a cap.

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Parasites not needed

In a black suit and bow tie, with a name plate that read “Sen. Magtira” pinned to his left chest, one 52-year-old aspirant claimed to be a rock musician. He said he would run on a platform that would push for a constituent assembly “through economics, arts and culture.”

In his COC, “Sen. Magtira” indicated that Kris Aquino—the President’s sister—was his spouse and that he was officially nominated by former first lady Imelda Marcos and Manila Rep. Carlo Lopez.

Magtira, who also filed his candidacy in past senatorial and presidential elections, left a piece of advice for voters: “The Filipinos must elect officials in the Senate who are honest to the nation, especially to the poor. Those who must be elected to the Senate should be sensible, not a parasite who wears clothes amassed by ill-gotten wealth.”

He gave away T-shirts and showered a group of Comelec employees and reporters with P1 coins on his way out of the building.

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Born to soon

In an all-white suit, Chavez—who identified himself as a broadcast journalist and a friend of Marcos loyalist lawyer Oliver Lozano—declared he was running under the Kilusang Bagong Liwanag (formerly Kilusang Bagong Lipunan) party.

It was his fourth attempt to run for a national post, Chavez said.

Claiming to be a former Marine, Lagata came in a barong and sported  red curly hair. He publicly proposed to GMA TV reporter Tina Panganiban-Perez.

“If only I hadn’t been born too soon, I would have been ready to marry you in all the churches,” the 68-year-old Lagata told her in Filipino, adding in a half-whisper: “I also kiss sweetly.”

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