Villagers celebrate lineage of new Filipino VP
- By Guo Yiming
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| Villagers, wearing red shirts and carrying a commemorative plaque with glorified words in support of the new Filipino vice president, take to the street in an old traditional procedure to "bring the good news to their ancestors" on June 30. [Photo: mnw.cn] |
Local villagers of Jinjiang in China's southeastern province of Fujian organized a grand celebration to congratulate the inauguration of the new Filipino vice president, the widow of a descendent of the village, on June 30.
Gathering in a clan hall walled with newly-fixed commemorative plaques, villagers watched the live TV broadcast as their heroine, Leni Robredo, was sworn into office. They also took to the village street carrying the plaques in an old traditional procedure to "bring the good news to their ancestors."
The glorified words on the plaques included "vice president" and "excellent woman".
The second most powerful leader in the archipelago is the widow of Jesse Robredo, or Lim Pieng Ti, a person of ethnic Chinese descent by means of his paternal grandfather who immigrated to the Philippines from Fujian Province at the beginning of the 20th Century.
Mr. Robredo was the former secretary of the Interior and Local Government and was killed in a plane crash in 2012.
As a fourth generation Chinese Filipino, he was keen to seek his roots back in China and very much cared for the development and education of his hometown.
"On hearing the news of Mrs. Robredo's victory, we were very excited," said Lin Kangqing, the village chief. He said that the local people couldn't fly to the Philippines to support the vice president-elect in such a short time notice, but that they'll present the video footage of their celebrations to her later in a gesture of encouragement.
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