The camp of presidential aspirant and son of late dictator Bongbong Marcos said that he has submitted for voluntary drug testing and had tested negative.
President Rodrigo Duterte repeatedly claimed that a presidential bet seeking to replace him in the 2022 elections supposedly uses cocaine.
Marcos is confident that he is not the one being alluded to by the president.
“It is inherent duty as an aspiring public official to assure my fellow Filipinos that I am against illegal drugs. This is why I took a cocaine test yesterday and the result was submitted this morning to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), the office of the Chief of the PNP and the National Bureau of Investigation,” Marcos said in a statement.
Marcos said that he took the drug test in a hospital.
“I am, and will remain, a vigilant anti-illegal drugs campaigner,” Marcos said in a caravan.
Duterte has refused to disclose the identity of the presidential bet he alleged using cocaine.
