{"id":40031,"date":"2015-01-27T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=40031"},"modified":"2015-02-01T10:52:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T02:52:17","slug":"boredom-to-push-santiago-to-seek-presidency-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/27\/boredom-to-push-santiago-to-seek-presidency-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Boredom\u2019 to push Santiago to seek presidency in 2016?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA, Philippines\u2013 Boredom might just be what will push Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago to run for the presidency in 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cI expect to be able to run for president if I get well, simply because it\u2019s boring, boring, boring. The landscape is boring,\u201d Santiago, who is battling cancer, said with a chuckle, as she spoke on Monday to reporters from GMA 7.<\/p>\n

Santiago was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer in June 2014, but says she is faring very well in her struggle with the illness, under her present course of medication.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you can notice for example that I am always out of breath and I cannot always call to mind a word that I want to use,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOtherwise, I am going forward. I can read my books very well. I still maintain my intellectual acuity. I don\u2019t mistake other people for my husband, for example. I\u2019m quite sure who he is,\u201d she quipped, in her trademark wry and offbeat sense of humor.<\/p>\n

Recently, Santiago communicated with Senate President Franklin Drilon and other senators to express her intention to fulfill her duties until 2016, but on \u201cqualified medical leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to tell you that I have decided to remain in office until the end of my term in 2016, on condition that I shall be on qualified medical leave,\u201d she said in a Jan. 23 letter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis qualification is to allow me to discharge, on a certain priority basis, my important functions as a senator, particularly as a committee chair, for as long as I am allowed to do so by my condition,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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