If no prexy bet gets him
By Mortz C. Ortigoza
DAGUPAN CITY – Last term Senator Alan Peter Cayetano said
he mulls to run as independent vice presidential bet in case he could not find
a presidential tandem in two weeks’ time.
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PERA,
TRABAHO, KITA.
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano (red shirt) meditates last Tuesday with
members of two vendor organizations inside the Malimgas Market in Dagupan City.
The senator dropped by the city to give them P100 thousand as additional seed
monies for their business ventures. Cayetano had given them for free in the
past years hundreds of thousands of pesos of his micro-financing program to
stave off these vendors from usurious lenders. Presently, the solon has 160
organization, primordially composed of vendors and public utility vehicles’
drivers and operators, that are beneficiaries of his Pera, Trabaho, Kita or PTK program. He
expects that they grow by 200 organizations before the May 2016 national
election. MORTZ C. ORTIGOZA
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“Will, that is why we are considering an independent
run,” when asked if one of the major presidential candidates did not get him in
the ticket.
Aside from running independent, Cayetano cited his
friends have been talking for a while with the party mates of Local Government
Secretary Mar Roxas and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte for the vice
presidential motive of the solon. Roxas and Duterte have moist eyes on the
presidency.
“Right now there are two groups na kinakausap
namin. These of course the groups of Secretary Roxas,we have some informal talk
sa mga kaibigan niya kaibigan ko. Kay Mayor Duterte naman so far he is not
running. But some people close to him are also talking to people close to me
because medyo may kahawig din ang pananaw namin sa pag dating sa pagastos ng
pundo nailabas sa Metro Manila. So there is some common values, hindi lang ako
makapagbigay ng date kasi,” he
stressed.
He said he was hell bent before to run for the presidency
but surveys and public opinions had given him an anaemic score.
The two weeks self declared deadline ensued, Cayetano
said, because he did not run for the presidency where he could just tell
anybody at his whims when he would run.
“Siguro if I was running in the presidency at ako ay
nanliligaw sa VP puwede ako magbigay ng deadline. But some of my supporters
telling me to run as an independent. So I am considering that also. Pero
tingnan natin. Siguro mga two weeks,” he stressed.
When asked how he could wiggle out and runs for the vice
presidential race amid fellow Nationalista party mates Senators Ferdinand
Marcos, Jr. and Antonio Trillanes IV nursing a desire to the same post, he said
they could settle the kinks as they are closed with each other.
“I hope we did not
go our separate ways. I hope two of us withdraw from the race or run for the
other post”.
He said any one of them can run against each other but
doubts if they can get the party support.
“So, ayaw kung pangunahan ang kapartido ko. But I am
hoping na maging solid kami”.
