NEGRENSES supporting Davao City mayor and presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte are joining the simultaneous nationwide rallies of his supporters in today’s final day of the campaign.

Yves Akol, secretary-general of Partido Demokratiko Pilipino Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban)-Negros Island Region, said the rallies in Bacolod City and other localities in the two Negros provinces were initiated by Duterte’s supporters themselves, and not the party.

Supporters from the north and the south of the province are expected to converge today at 4 p.m. at the People’s House for a motorcade going to Talisay City at 6 p.m.

A free concert will be held the North Soccer Field Ayala in Talisay City.

Duterte maintained his lead in the pre-election surveys.

The newly released data from the latest BusinessWorld-Social Weather Station (SWS) pre-election survey conducted in the first three days of May revealed that 33 percent still prefer the Davao City mayor as the country's next Chief Executive.

Duterte is followed in the ranking by independent candidate Senator Grace Poe with 22 percent, 2 points below her previous count.

Administration bet Manuel Roxas II is consistent in his third place finish at 20 percent.

Earlier, Duterte also sustained his lead over his rivals in the presidential, respectively, as shown in the latest Pulse Asia preference survey commissioned by broadcasting giant ABS-CBN.

In the poll conducted April 19-24, Duterte got 33 percent preference rating, a one-percentage loss from the previous Pulse Asia survey.

Fellow presidential candidate Senator Grace Poe, whose score is unchanged at 22 percent, is in a statistical tie with administration standard-bearer Manuel Roxas II who got 20 percent

They were followed by Vice President Jejomar Binay got 18 percent and Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago with two percent preference rating. (MPE/with reports from Sunnex)