{"id":57175,"date":"2015-07-27T13:13:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T05:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=57175"},"modified":"2015-07-27T13:13:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T05:13:43","slug":"pacman-still-mum-on-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/27\/pacman-still-mum-on-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacman still mum on Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33761\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/manny-pacquiao.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33761\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/manny-pacquiao-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"8-Division Boxing Champion and Sarangani Representative Manny 'Pacman' Pacquiao (Facebook photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/manny-pacquiao-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/manny-pacquiao.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">8-Division Boxing Champion and Sarangani Representative Manny &#8216;Pacman&#8217; Pacquiao (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Boxing champ and Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao is yet to decided if he would run for senator in the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Philippine Star, Pacquiao said he is still undecided on running for a higher post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrankly from scale 1 to 100, it\u2019s still 50-50 in my chances to run for senator in 2016 although I must admit I have plans\u2026 but it will all depend on the plans and wishes of our creator for me,\u201dPacquiao said.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao is also being eyed to join the ruling Liberal Party (LP) in case he decides to run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongressman Manny and I are talking. We will see if we would be able to convince him to be part of \u201cDaang Matuwid\u201d,\u201d Deputy Minority Leader and YACAP Party \u2013 list Rep. Carol Lopez said.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez is a vocal supporter of LP&#8217;s presumptive standard bearer,\u00a0Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel \u2018Mar\u2019 Roxas II.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao was also earlier reported to have joined the launching of the opposition party,\u00a0United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) headed by Vice President Jejomar C. Binay.<\/p>\n<p>Binay also said that he is planning to tap the Sarangani representative to be part of UNA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Boxing champ and Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao is yet to decided if he would run for senator in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":33761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57175","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\/57175","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=57175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}