Bro. Eddie to unfurl ‘biggest RP flag’ to kick off campaign

Television evangelist Eduardo “Eddie" Villanueva (Bangon Pilipinas) will kick off his presidential bid Tuesday by unfurling what they claimed is the country’s biggest flag. Villanueva’s camp said the unfurling, which will be held at the Luneta Park in Manila, is a symbolic gesture for a new Philippines. “With the symbolic unfurling of the flag, we are declaring God’s blessings upon our nation. God said in the Good Book – Call to me and I will answer. I will deliver you from trouble and honor you," said Lyndon Caña, Bangon Pilipinas’ national campaign manager, in an article on the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) news site. The Philippine's biggest flag – measuring 180 meters x 92 meters – was first unfurled in Aritao, Nueva Vizcaya on September 16, 2006. Weighing 3.8 tons and costing almost P10 million, it was created by businesswoman Grace Galindez Gupana, a supporter of Bangon Pilipinas Party. Gupana is a Guinness World Record-holder of several titles, including the World’s Biggest Flag – the Israeli Flag – unfurled in Gaza strip in Israel about the same time as the Philippine flag was unfurled again in Baguio City on June 12, 2008. “We believe Filipinos are already awakened. We are all tired with old traditional politics. We see how traditional politics has brought our nation deeper into economic quagmire. We have not seen corruption and bad governance at their worse than in the recent years," Caña said. - KBK, GMANews.TV