{"id":51951,"date":"2015-06-16T16:11:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T08:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=51951"},"modified":"2015-06-16T23:34:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T15:34:56","slug":"osmena-to-poe-run-independent-run-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/16\/osmena-to-poe-run-independent-run-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Osme\u00f1a to Poe: Run independent, run alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35039\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35039\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/serge-osmena-III.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35039\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/serge-osmena-III.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Serge Osmena III (www.senate.gov.ph)\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/serge-osmena-III.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/serge-osmena-III-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Serge Osmena III (www.senate.gov.ph)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Senator Sergio\u00a0Osme\u00f1a III has some advice for fellow senator and top presidential bet Grace Poe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the best option (for Grace) is to run for President as an independent,&#8221; Osme\u00f1a said in a report from the Philippine Daily Inquirer. &#8220;So she will not be a captive of any political party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Osme\u00f1a pointed out that Poe is already &#8220;winnable&#8221; despite having no affiliations with any major political party, which\u00a0Osme\u00f1a referred to as simple &#8220;political cliques [that are] fleeting and temporary alliances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also thinks that the &#8220;package deal&#8221; tandem of Poe and Sen. Francis &#8216;Chiz&#8217; Escudero is not a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if you want to support her but you don\u2019t want Chiz? Why would you put yourself in that position?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>He also pointed out that Poe can have anybody as her running mate, but she should not go for the package deal approach when it comes to political ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don\u2019t go for the package,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It\u2019s hard enough to sell yourself first. You\u2019re saying, take me and you also have to take everybody else along with me. It\u2019s better not to be saddled with a running mate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite numerous reports about their political partnership, Poe and Escudero are yet to issue any official announcement about their plans for the 2016 polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Senator Sergio\u00a0Osme\u00f1a III has some advice for fellow senator and top presidential bet Grace Poe. &#8220;I think the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":35039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-ching-dee","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51951","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=51951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}