{"id":56386,"date":"2015-07-20T16:58:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T08:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=56386"},"modified":"2015-07-20T16:58:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T08:58:38","slug":"poe-considers-aquinos-view-not-lps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/20\/poe-considers-aquinos-view-not-lps\/","title":{"rendered":"Poe considers Aquino\u2019s view, not LP\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senator Grace Poe during a Senate committee hearing (Photo from Poe’s official Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013 Amid blatant opposition of several members of the ruling Liberal Party (LP) to support an inexperienced \u2018outsider\u2019 as their presidential bid, Senator Grace Poe withheld that President Benigno \u201cNoynoy\u201d Aquino III\u2019s view was more important than that of the political party.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I ran in 2013, I joined that coalition and President Aquino was my guide. If ever I should make a decision and they believe that I am worthy of their support, the most important is the view of the President and not of just a party,\u201d Poe said in an interview with Radyo Inquirer.<\/p>\n

Poe also claimed that she will respect whoever Aquino would endorse as his preferred presidential candidate in next year\u2019s national elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if he is a friend, I cannot read everything that is on the mind of the President. He is honest, not only with me but also with all his allies. He does not impose himself. He has long been telling me that this will not be easy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Poe then clarified that although she considered the President\u2019s endorsement as an advantage in the presidential race, she believed that the decision to seek higher office should first be a personal choice as running the Philippines would not be easy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the President\u2019s endorsement is a big thing\u2026 [But even if] someone you look up to and respect endorses your candidacy, it is still up to you [to make the final decision to run or not],\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Still undecided<\/strong><\/p>\n

As of posting, Poe still has not declared candidacy. She admitted, however, that she has already started thinking about it \u2013 about joining the \u2018fight.\u2019<\/p>\n

Poe reiterated the difficulties her late father Fernando Poe Jr. (FPJ) experienced when he joined the presidential race in 2004, where now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo won.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I want to be] careful about the memory of my father and of course the work I have been doing in the Senate,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to lose these for a decision that is wrong\u2026 But what is important to me, I admit, I am thinking of how I could help people. And will I be able to cope with this because it was not easy for my father in 2004,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

It can be recalled that FPJ was criticized by his detractors in the 2004 presidential elections as a mere movie star with no capability to run the country. They also questioned his citizenship for having an American mother.<\/p>\n

In the coming national elections, Poe has also been repeatedly lambasted as a newbie in politics with little experience and has been asked to prove her Filipino citizenship being an adopted daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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