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Manny Pacquiao. Arkivbild. (CHRIS FARINA / AFP)

Boxningslegendar vill bli Filippinernas president

Boxningsstjärnan Manny Pacquiao ställer upp i presidentvalet i Filippinerna nästa år. Han utmanar därmed sitt eget partis presidentkandidat.

– Jag är en kämpe, och kommer alltid förbli en kämpe – både inne i ringen och utanför, säger 42-åringen enligt Reuters.

Pacquiao har nominerats av en grupp inom det regerande partiet PDP-Laban, som leds av nuvarande president Rodrigo Duterte. Grundlagen förhindrar Duterte från att ställa upp i valet igen. Han har dock sagt att han kandiderar till att bli vicepresident.

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Manny Pacquiao
Wikipedia (en)
Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao Sr., (locally [pɐkˈjaʊ]; born December 17, 1978), is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. Nicknamed "PacMan", he is regarded as one of the greatest professional boxers of all time. He has been serving as a senator of the Philippines since 2016, and previously served as party president of the ruling party PDP–Laban (2020–2021), and representative of Sarangani (2010–2016). Pacquiao is the only eight-division world champion in the history of boxing and has won twelve major world titles. He was the first boxer to win the lineal championship in five different weight classes, the first boxer to win major world titles in four of the eight "glamour divisions": flyweight, featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight, and is the only boxer to hold world championships across four decades (1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s).As of 2015, Pacquiao's fights had generated $1.2 billion in revenue from his 25 pay-per-view bouts. According to Forbes, he was the second highest paid athlete in the world in 2015.In July 2019, Pacquiao became the oldest welterweight world champion in history at the age of 40, and the first boxer in history to become a recognized four-time welterweight champion after defeating Keith Thurman to win the WBA (Super) welterweight title.Pacquiao has other interests in addition to boxing and politics: in basketball, he was the player-coach of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) team Kia/Mahindra for three seasons before founding the semi-professional Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL). He also starred in films and presented television shows. In music, he has released multiple locally-platinum albums and songs; his cover of Dan Hill's "Sometimes When We Touch" peaked at 19 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary top 20 list after performing it on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He is also an Evangelical Christian preacher and a known philanthropist, entrepreneur, socialite, and YouTube personality.
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