MATI CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Mar. 26, 2013) – United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) senatorial candidate JV Ejercito Estrada visited Mati City in Mindanao’s Davao Oriental province where he was greeted and cheered by a huge crowd.
Supporters and residents chanted Ejercito Estrada’s name as he motored around here in one of his recent visit to the southern Philippines, a known stronghold of the Estradas.
Ejercito Estrada, a lawmaker from San Juan City and son of former President Joseph Estrada, converged in downtown Mati along with other UNA senatorial candidates where they gave their speeches. Local leaders led residents in welcoming Ejercito Estrada’s group.
The young solon is not a stranger to Davao Oriental province, particularly in Mati, because his father extended concrete economic and financial support to the city during the incumbency of the late Mayor Francisco Rabat. And in past Presidential elections, Estrada always garnered overwhelming votes from the electorate of Davao Oriental.
Political analysts here strongly believed that Ejercito Estrada will surely make it to the Senate, or even win the top spot in the mid-term polls.
Ejercito Estrada is widely popular in Davao region and was one of few politicians who donated to the victims of Typhoon Bopha which devastated Mindanao last year.
Both father and son even went to the province to hand over some P1.7 million in cash and 200 bundles of assorted clothes for the typhoon victims though Governor Corazon Malanyaon.
While in Mati City, Ejercito Estrada urged the people of Davao Oriental to work hard and help the provincial and local government efforts to bring back the glorious past of the province. The province is where the Mount Hamiguitan Range – a probable World Heritage Site – is situated. (Dol Oñez)
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