{"id":32349,"date":"2014-11-20T09:55:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T01:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=32349"},"modified":"2014-11-21T09:57:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T01:57:19","slug":"abad-says-roxas-is-lps-bid-for-2016-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/20\/abad-says-roxas-is-lps-bid-for-2016-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Abad says Roxas is LP\u2019s bid for 2016 elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22458\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22458\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Mar-Roxas1-e1409108918125.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22458\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Mar-Roxas1-e1409108918125-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"DILG Secretary and Liberal Party frontrunner for 2016 Mar Roxas (Photo from Roxas' official Facebook page)\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Mar-Roxas1-e1409108918125-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Mar-Roxas1-e1409108918125.jpg 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DILG Secretary and Liberal Party frontrunner for 2016 Mar Roxas (Photo from Roxas&#8217; official Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Liberal Party (LP) seems settled with their presidential bid for the 2016 elections, according to a top party official.<\/p>\n<p>LP\u2019s vice chairman Senate President Franklin Drilon said on Wednesday that he wants their presidential candidate to come from their party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a party man and I would prefer a party member,\u201d said Drilon. \u201cWe do not lack talents in our party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Budget Secretary Florencio Abad said that they are considering Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas to be their candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that has changed,\u201d he said during the budget deliberations in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>But he added that there was nothing new about government figures like the President expressing their willingness to speak with other parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitics being politics, you have to be open to speaking to other parties on coalition matters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Liberal Party (LP) seems settled with their presidential bid for the 2016 elections, according to a top &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":22458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[7171],"class_list":["post-32349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-roxas","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32349","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=32349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}