{"id":24040,"date":"2014-08-28T15:06:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T07:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=24040"},"modified":"2014-08-28T18:09:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T10:09:01","slug":"binay-hits-back-attacks-administration-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/28\/binay-hits-back-attacks-administration-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"Binay hits back, attacks administration allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11558\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11558\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Jejomar-Binay1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11558\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Jejomar-Binay1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Vice President Jejomar Binay. Photo courtesy of Binay's official Facebook page.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Jejomar-Binay1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Jejomar-Binay1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Jejomar Binay. Photo courtesy of Binay&#8217;s official Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Vice President Jejomar Binay on Wednesday singled out the allies of the administration for allegedly crafting political attacks against him.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was made following former Makati City Vice Mayor Ernesto Mercado\u2019s accusations involving Binay in the overpriced P2.28-billion Makati City Hall Parking Building.<\/p>\n<p>Mercado impliedly said in a Senate inquiry that Binay made money from the Makati car park project.<\/p>\n<p>Binay hits back, denying the issues and saying that the accuser was involved deeper than him in the alleged over-priced project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI and my family did not receive any money in any transactions in Makati City\u2014not in the construction of the parking building or any building in Makati City, from contractors and businessmen of our city and especially in giving and baking cakes or other benefits for Makati residents,\u201d Binay said in Filipino during a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Binay said that he fears that a \u201cpoliticized forum meant to find my criminal liability and was not in aid of legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are they maligning me? It\u2019s because of the information that the next political surveys will start soon. They wanted their tirades against me to impact on the people\u2019s support for me because not only do I have a high trust rating but I am also the front-runner in the people\u2019s preference for President,\u201d said Binay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Vice President Jejomar Binay on Wednesday singled out the allies of the administration for allegedly crafting political attacks &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[1800,5038],"class_list":["post-24040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-2016-elections","tag-binay","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24040","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}