WBO world welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, 37,
who retired from boxing to join politics won big when he got
elected into the Philippines’ senate on Thursday. He was
declared among 12 new members of the upper house of
Congress by the Philippine’s elections commission.
Last week, voters cast their ballots to choose a president,
vice president, 12 senators, 200 members of the lower
house of Congress and 18,000 local officials and he was
one of the 12 senators.
Pacquiao told reporters:
“I can focus and discipline myself, the way I did in boxing to
help the nation,” He said as a new senator, he would push
for free education at all levels.
Manny Pacquiao who is also a two-term congressman also
said he favours restoring the death penalty for drug-related
and other serious crimes.
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