By Mortz C. Ortigoza
A campaign manager of then presidential candidate Fernando Poe,Jr and
the No.1 supporter of Senator Grace Poe in Pangasinan said that the latter will
be joining a coalition of political parties and not the Liberal Party in case
she decides to run for the presidency in the 2016 election.
Rosendo So, a renowned kingmaker of the 3 million populated province,
said that Senator Poe would not be running under the Liberal Party (LP) or the
Nationalist People’s Coalition but she would take shelter on the coalition of
major political parties sans LP that believe her as the real deal on the 2016
presidential election.
“The other parties that would coalesce for her presidential bid are any of
the following: NPC, Nationalista
incase Senator Alan Peter Cayetano
foregoes his presidential ambition, Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan
in case Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte nixes his presidential bid, People
Power-Christian Muslim Democrats under Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, Centrist
Democratic Party of the Philippines
under Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, Kilusang Bagong Lipunan under Rep. Imelda
Marcos, Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino under former Senator Edgardo Angara,
Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino under former President Joseph Estrada , and People's
Reform Party under Senator Merriam Santiago,” a source, who asked anonymity,
who is closed to Senator Poe, said.
The same source said the lady senator, who was breathing 4 points behind
Vice President Jejomar Binay for the presidential run in 2016 based on the May
8 to 18 survey of Manila Standard Today (MST), will not join the LP because the
leadership and the card carrying members there would fight tooth and nail for
Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas' inclusion as the presidential contender of
the party that adopted President Benigno Aquino III in the 2010 presidential
election.
The source doubts Roxas can win the presidential derby as its stocks
continue to plunge as reflected by the latest survey. He placed No. 4 with
Senator Santiago with eight percentages each.
The MST surveys, published too by the prestigious Rapple.com online
magazine, saw Binay in No.1 with 28 percent, Poe in No. 2 with 24 percentages
point.
Manila Mayor Estrada and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte were
tied in third place with 10 percent each.
Senator Miriam Santiago and Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II—the
administration’s presumptive standard bearer—shared the fourth spot at eight
percent each.
Senator Francis Escudero was in fifth place at four percent; Senators
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Cayetano were tied in sixth place at three
percent each; and former Senator Panfilo Lacson was in seventh place at one
percent.
Those polled were also most likely to give their vote to Poe if their
preferred presidential bet decided to withdraw from the race.
Among the possible candidates for vice president, Poe led the pack at 23
percent with Escudero at close second at 16 percent.
The other possible vice presidential candidates included Cayetano and
Duterte at 11 percent each, Estrada and Lacson at seven percent each, Senator
Antonio Trillanes IV (six percent), Batangas Gov. Vilma Santos and Marcos at
five percent each, and former senator Francis Pangilinan and Sarangani Rep.
Manny Pacquiao at four percent each.
The poll had a sample size of 1,500 with 300 respondents each from the
National Capital Region, North/Central Luzon, South Luzon/Bicol, the Visayas
and Mindanao.
The Standard Poll had error margins of +/- 2.6 percent for the national
result and +/- 6 percent for the regional results.
All regions were represented in the survey.
So, the chair of Abono Party-list Party and the Samahang Industriya ng
Agrikultura (SINAG) eyed a Poe-Escudero
tandem in the 2016 polls.
The Abono Chairman is the campaign manager of former Congressman Mark Cojuangco
who is going to challenge the son of Pangasinan Governor Amado T. Espino in the
2016 gubernatorial election.
The source said that So, a big time businessman, would be the major
financial campaign contributor of Poe just like what he had done to her father
known in the celluloid screen as FPJ in the 2004 presidential election versus
then President Gloria M. Arroyo.
The source said when So and Espino were allies against the wife of then
Governor Victor Agbayani for the gubernatorial post in the 2007 election, So
spent P100 million while Espino bankrolled P150 million of their personal
monies to defeat Jamie Agbayani by
33,087 votes votes.
Last June 2, So brought Senator Poe in the
cities of Dagupan and San Carlos for powwows and sentimental visit at the
village in San Carlos of her grandfather Fernando Poe, Sr and father and broke
breads with kin there.
“Wala pang TV ads si Grace Poe unlike Binay, Roxas, Duterte, and
Cayetano but look at her meteoric rise in the latest surveys,” So exclaimed.
The lady solon is believed to eclipse Vice President Binay after her
ballyhooed media covered emotional visit at the Jaro Cathedral when she dropped
by at the place where she was left by her parent, picked up the illustrative
daughter of a haciendero in Bacolod, and was given away for adoption to the
couple actors Fernando Poe, Jr. And Susan Roces.
“Her being a foundling, and the massive media coverage on that visit and
the insensitive ridicules she got from Binay’s political hatchet men lawyer JV
Bautista and Congressman Toby Tiangco if covered thereafter by the polls of
Social Weather Station and Pulse Asia, then all cards are off. Grace Poe would be the indisputable No. 1
presidential contender in 2016,” a political columnist, who asked not to be
named, said.
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