What 'Zero in Visayas' Projection? Lacson Gets Warm Welcome in Dumaguete, Bais May 4, 2022 - The zero support in the Visayas that a survey firm projected for independent presidential bet Sen. Panfilo "Ping" M. Lacson was debunked on Wednesday by the warm reception he got in Negros Oriental. Lacson was welcomed in Dumaguete City by Elsie Lee and her family upon his arrival. Mrs. Lee's son Emmanuel was a kidnap-for-ransom victim who Lacson rescued during his law enforcement days. Lacson, accompanied by senatoriable Emmanuel PiƱol, were then feted at the Lee Plaza before they paid a courtesy call on Dumaguete City Mayor Felipe Antonio Remollo at City Hall. Several residents attended the town hall meeting he and Pinol attended. "It didn’t look zero to me," Lacson said at a press conference after the town hall meeting in Dumaguete. In Bais City north of Dumaguete City, the crowd at the town hall meeting there debunked the “zero votes” projection even more ...