The Standard - 2015 June 13 - Saturday

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ROTARY CLUB OF MANILA NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR 2015 VOL. XXIX NO. 115 2 Sections 24 Pages P18 SATURDAY : JUNE 13, 2015 www.manilastandardtoday.com editorial@thestandard.com.ph

Binay: Not being endorsed is okay

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Still Mar, PNoy hints By Sandy Araneta

PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III praised Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II Friday, giving the presumptive presidential candidate for the Liberal Party a boost during ceremonies to mark the country’s 117th Independence Day.

“You know, Mar Roxas, a true son of Panay, advanced this initiative,” the President said, referring to the Negros Island Region, which combines two provinces under one regional group. “Like in the past, we know that whenever we task Mar Roxas to lead a project or program, you can expect that initiative will succeed.” Aquino said the initiative was the result of consultations with the leaders of local communities, governors and

...and no Jojo-Erap, either By Macon Ramos-Araneta OUSTED President and now Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada said Friday he would not be a running mate for Vice President Jejomar Binay in the 2016 elections, while Estrada’s common-law-wife, San Juan Mayor Guia Gomez, promised to back Senator Grace Poe if she runs for President. “She’s No. 1 in San Juan,” Gomez said when asked if she would support a Poe presidential bid. “She is from San Juan. She is the god sister of my son (Senator JV Ejercito). We are very close.” But if Poe does not run, she said, she would follow whoever Estrada endorses. Estrada and Ejercito both belong to the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), a merger of

the former president’s Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino and Binay’s PDP-Laban. Poe was the guest speaker in the 117th Independence Day celebration in San Juan where Gomez is the mayor. Observers say if Poe runs, it will be a tough fight between her and Binay, who has been leading most opinion polls for the 2016 elections. But Poe, who has topped all the vice presidential preference surveys, is closing in as well on Binay’s poll figures for the presidency. In Luneta Park for his city’s Independence Day celebration, Estrada said he was not interested in running again for vice president, saying he’d “been there and was done with it.” Next page

representatives and even the local chambers of commerce. “This is why, when Secretary Mar Roxas put forward this suggestion, and after all the necessary consultations were undertaken, we took action by signing the executive order,” Aquino said. Aquino said the initiative would benefit both Negros Oriental and Negros Occidental. “Recently, I signed an executive

order creating the Negros Island Region, which brings the two provinces under one regional grouping. Consider this: those two provinces, which belong to the same island, were in the past part of two different regions. This meant that while they were in one island, and shared the same set of concerns, they had to share resources with provinces from other regions to address those problems,” he said. Next page

Independence Day. Spectators catch a glimpse of the first-ever video mapping of the Aguinaldo Shrine in Kawit, Cavite. Below, President Benigno Aquino III and Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas lead the Independence Day celebrations in Iloilo City. Ey Acasio and Malacañang Photo Bureau


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