{"id":50468,"date":"2015-05-26T23:52:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50468"},"modified":"2015-05-26T23:55:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:55:38","slug":"duterte-says-no-to-tandem-with-binay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/26\/duterte-says-no-to-tandem-with-binay\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte says no to tandem with Binay"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47874\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47874\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image47.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47874\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image47-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte (PNA photo)\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image47-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image47.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte turned down Vice President Jejomar Binay\u2019s offer to become his vice-presidential candidate in the 2016 polls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He said it in good faith. I&#8217;d like to thank si Mayor Binay for considering me&#8230;The offer itself is an honor pero ako, I said that, noon pa I always avoided national positions,&#8221; he said in an interview with local program Gikan sa Masa Para sa Masa.<\/p>\n<p>(He said it in good faith. I&#8217;d like to thank Mayor Binay for considering me&#8230;The offer itself is an honor but I said that, since then, I have always avoided national positions.)<\/p>\n<p>He added that similar offers were already turned down including that of Fidel Ramos and Joseph Estrada during their terms.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte also revealed that he rejected an offer from the administration for a top post in the Department of the Interior and Local Government.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor noted how it is \u201cexpensive to live in Manila.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wala akong ibang source, to have the apartment repaired and maybe I have to buy a car again. Ano ang sasakyan ko doon. Baka akala nila&#8230;they are all borrowed from friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(I don\u2019t have other source, to have the apartment repaired and maybe I have to buy a car again. What will I use? Maybe they\u2019re thinking&#8230; but they are all borrowed from friends.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte turned down Vice President Jejomar Binay\u2019s offer to become his vice-presidential candidate in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":47874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50468","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=50468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}