PARTIDO Reporma presidential and vice presidential bets Senator Panfilo Lacson and Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Monday subjected themselves to voluntary drug testing. They tested negative.

Sotto, in a message to members of the Senate media, said that they were tested at the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency office.

“What we underwent was not the ordinary testing. PDEA uses a multidrug testing kit. It can check all types of illegal drugs encompassing holistic drug test,” he said.

“Ordinary testing only checks marijuana and shabu,” he added.

Lacson, meanwhile, said they went through all the protocols from the signing up of forms to the submission of their urine samples where an attending physician monitored them closely to ensure the authenticity of the tests.

Lacson and Sotto subjected themselves to drug test days after President Rodrigo Duterte claimed that a presidential aspirant in the 2022 elections is a cocaine user.