Chin and Toribiong camps have scheduled campaign rallies starting today in an effort to get more votes come election time.
Toribiong and his running mate Del. Kerai Mariur will hold a campaign rally in Ngchesar today while Chin and running mate Sen. Alan Seid will hold one in Echang , T-dock on Saturday and Ngiwal on Sunday.The two candidates also recently arrived from an off-island campaigning in Guam, Saipan and Hawaii.Chin and Toribiong also vowed to have been running a clean and honest campaign and have not been engaging in vote-buying.Both candidates however admitted providing lunch or dinners for their prospective voters during campaign rallies or meetings, but do not see this as vote-buying.The two candidates also said that they have filed their campaign expenditures before the conduct of primary election on Sept. 23.Chin and Toribiong in separate interviews said that they took out personal loans and supporters held fundraisers to finance their campaigns.Toribiong said the Sen. Joshua Koshiba and his running mate Peleliu Governor Jackson Ngiraingas has thrown their support to him.He added that Sen. Surangel Whipps supporters are supporting his campaign.Koshiba and Whipps lost in the primary election. Whipps and presidential chief of staff Billy Kuartei garnered 2,248; and Koshiba-Ngiraingas, 1,387.If all the people in the primary election voted on the general election, 3,635 votes are up for grabs between Chin and Toribiong.In the primary election, Chin-Seid obtained 3,027 votes; Toribiong-Mariur, 2,526. The Chin-Seid tandem led by 501 votes.Chin’s camp also said that Whipps supporters have also thrown their support on them.Toribiong and Chin said Whipps will remain neutral and is not endorsing any candidateChin and Seid they have personally talked to Whipps who vowed that he will remain neutral.
