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Senatorial candidate Astravel "Astra" Pimentel (Photo courtesy of PDP-Laban) MANILA - President Rodrigo R. Duterte thinks that senatorial aspirant and former executive director of the Commission on Filipinos Overseas, Astravel "Astra" Pimentel, deserves a spot in the Senate because of her "basic knowledge of community life." "Si Astra, with her basic knowledge of a community life, her being there in the Senate would go a long way to help the less privileged na sa taong Pilipino, 'yung nakakalimutan natin (Filipinos, those we tend to forget)," he said in the third episode of The President's Chatroom aired on Monday night. During the program, Duterte asked Pimentel, a distant relative of former Senate president Aquilino "Nene" Pimentel Jr., why she decided to join the senatorial race. She said Mindanao "did not have a woman senator for the longest time." "The first time and the only ever time that Mindanao produced

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