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Mar Roxas: ‘I’ll support whomever Aquino chooses in 2016’

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Mar Roxas: ‘I’ll support whomever Aquino chooses in 2016’
But the Liberal Party's presumptive presidential bet for 2016 is quick to indicate: So far, it can't possibly be Vice President Jejomar Binay

MANILA, Philippines – The ruling Liberal Party’s (LP) president on leave Manuel Roxas II said his party is united. So much so that the members – including him – will support whomever President Benigno Aquino III will endorse come election time, whether it’s Roxas or somebody else.

Matibay ang pagkakaisa namin sa LP, at kasama ako dito, na susuporta at maninindigan sa kandidato ni PNoy sa 2016, ako man iyon o hindi,” Roxas said in a statement on Saturday, August 10. (LP is united, and I am with them in supporting and backing President Aquino’s candidate in 2016, whether it’s me or not.)

The party’s presumptive standard bearer for 2016, however, is quick to indicate that, so far, Aquino’s choice can’t possibly be Vice President Jejomar Binay.

Binay, a good friend of the Aquino family, earlier claimed, citing unnamed “credible” sources, that the LP was mulling over adopting him as presidential bet. 

LP stalwarts, including its vice chairman Franklin Drilon, flatly denied those “loose talk,” but the President’s sisters themselves had spoken on national TV that they were open to endorsing Binay.

In 2010, talk was rife in campaign circles that the Cojuangco and Aquino families campaigned for an Aquino-Binay ticket even if the two belonged to different parties, and left Roxas hanging. They denied this.

Roxas in his statement Sunday dismissed any chance of forging an alliance with the opposition United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), which Binay heads.

Napakalinaw naman na hanggang ngayon, salungat na salungat ang agenda ng UNA sa agenda ng Daang Matuwid na siyang itinataguyod ng LP,” Roxas said. (So far, UNA’s agenda is directly opposed to the The Righteous Path that LP upholds.)

He pointed out that UNA questioned Aquino’s stance on the Corona impeachment, the prosecution of those involved in the pork barrel scandal, and budget reforms.

The LP earlier said it is open to coalitions, but presented a long list of criteria that appears to disqualify the Vice President and UNA.

“Hindi ito tungkol kay Mar o Jojo sa 2016. Ang pinakamahalaga ay ang pagpapatibay at pagpapatuloy ng Daang Matuwid,” Roxas added. (This is not a matter of Mar or Jojo for 2016. The most important thing is the strengthening and continuation of the “The Righteous Path.”)

Vice President Binay earlier insisted a coalition between his UNA party and the ruling party remains “possible.” – Rappler.com

 

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