{"id":161363,"date":"2018-04-24T07:37:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T11:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=161363"},"modified":"2018-04-24T14:13:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T18:13:33","slug":"liberal-party-wants-roxas-to-run-for-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/24\/liberal-party-wants-roxas-to-run-for-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Party wants Roxas to run for Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Liberal Party (LP) urged former senator Manuel \u201cMar\u201d Roxas II to run for a Senate seat again in 2019, Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said on Tuesday, April 24. (Photo<\/a>: Mar Roxas\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Liberal Party (LP) is urging former senator Manuel \u201cMar\u201d Roxas II\u00a0to run for a Senate seat again in 2019, Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said\u00a0on Tuesday, April 24.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are suggesting to him to consider it but candidacy is a personal decision. But yes, we are suggesting to him to take a good look at it,\u201d Drilon, LP vice chair, told reporters.<\/p>\n

But according to him, Roxas has not yet decided about it as he is \u201cenjoying his private life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The senator added that the upper house \u201ccertainly\u201d needs someone like Roxas, who is \u201cextremely qualified\u201d for the position.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe confirm that we have asked him to consider. That is a personal decision for Senator Mar,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

Roxas, who served in the Senate from 2004 to 2010, was the LP\u2019s standard bearer in the last May 2016 but lost to then Davao City Mayor and now President Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n

Responding to the recommendation, Roxas said he is currently focusing on his family and his mother because he owes them a lot.<\/p>\n

Aside from the former ruling party, Senator Paolo Benigo \u201cBam\u201dAquino earlier said certain groups also want the defeated presidential candidate to run for senator next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cHindi pa kami nag-uusap tungkol dito, hindi ko pa rin alam pero alam ko may mga grupong inuudyok siyang tumakbo <\/em>(We have not yet talked about it, I still don\u2019t know but there are groups urging him to run),\u201d<\/em> Aquino stressed.<\/p>\n

Drilon said that they are still in the process of reviewing a possible list of candidates; however, he was not at liberty to make an announcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersonally, I am realistic that it is not easy to complete a 12-man slate at this point. Let’s leave it at that and let’s see what happens in the next several months,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo far we are working on a slate. It’s not easy being in the opposition and it’s a mid-term election. These are the challenges that we face,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Liberal Party (LP) is urging former senator Manuel \u201cMar\u201d Roxas II\u00a0to run for a Senate seat again in 2019, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":161371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[1146,2102,4999],"class_list":["post-161363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-liberal-party","tag-mar-roxas","tag-senator","mauthors-joanna-belle-deala","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}