Binay fires first salvo 

Vice President Jejomar Binay opened the campaign period on February 12 by launching a tirade against the administration coalition Team PNoy, responding to attacks that he and his candidates are mere pretenders. “You charge us of being pretenders? Excuse me,” Binay told reporters in Cebu where he was to proclaim the senatorial bets of the coalition he founded, the United Nationalist Alliance. Binay was reacting to Team PNoy’s TV ad and statements alluding to people who are just riding on President Benigno Aquino III’s popularity. Binay also accused the ruling Liberal Party, which runs Team PNoym of being elitist, and pointed to his history as a supporter of former President Cory Aquino, the president’s mother.


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