Isko Moreno and Doc Willing Ong Senate Slate

On September 27, the AksyonDemokratiko Party-list headed by the standard-bearer and presidential aspirant Isko Moreno and running mate Doc Willing Ong announced two names that will make up their senatorial slate. “Kabayan” Noli De Castro who was a former senator and vice president was also added to the lineup however, after his withdrawal of candidacy, was replaced by JopetSison.

Who are in the Moreno-Ong senate slate?

Here are the senatorial candidates under the Moreno-Ong slate.

Carl Balita

Balita is a doctor and educational entrepreneur. He is known as the founder of the Carl E. Balita Review Center, a review center for a variety of licensure exams. It has over 120 local and overseas branches. He is also a social media personality, with almost 600,000 Facebook likers.

Samira Gutoc

Gutoc first ran for the Senate during the 2019 Midterm Elections under the OtsoDiretso slate. Gutoc is known as a Mindanao civic leader. She was one of the officer-in-charge members of the 7th ARMM assembly. In 2017, she was appointed as one of the members of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission. During the Marawi Crisis, she established the Ranao Rescue Team.

Jopet Sison

Sison is a TV personality, best known as the host of the popular legal drama anthology “Ipaglaban Mo!” He was a former councilor of Quezon City. In 2019, he ran as Vice Mayor of Quezon City under PDP-Laban but lost. During the 1990s, he was also a member of the Liberal Party.

A ‘more exclusive’ lineup

Moreno’s political party, AksyonDemokratiko, shared to an interview that while they find nothing wrong with having common senatorial bets as other parties and tandems, they prefer a ‘more exclusive’ senatorial lineup for their party. This is after multiple senatorial candidates have found themselves named under the lineup for multiple parties and presidential and vice-presidential tandems.

Open to adopting Rodrigo Duterte to the lineup

Moreno has been very vocal about his admiration and support of outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte, even going as far as publicly announcing that he is open to adopting Duterte to his senatorial lineup.