{"id":57546,"date":"2015-07-29T20:16:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T12:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=57546"},"modified":"2025-01-13T09:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:50:23","slug":"poe-aquino-wants-me-to-be-roxas-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/29\/poe-aquino-wants-me-to-be-roxas-running-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"Poe: Aquino wants me to be Roxas\u2019 running mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_57549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57549\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11800028_1002911523073395_7060622843047289590_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57549\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11800028_1002911523073395_7060622843047289590_n.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Grace Poe (Photo from Poe's official Facebook page)\" width=\"960\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11800028_1002911523073395_7060622843047289590_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11800028_1002911523073395_7060622843047289590_n-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Grace Poe (Photo from Poe&#8217;s official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sengracepoe\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 In an interview with ANC News, Senator Grace Poe had finally disclosed some details from her three long dinner meetings with President Benigno \u201cNoynoy\u201d Aquino III.<\/p>\n<p>Poe stated that although not told directly, she felt like Aquino wanted her to be Interior Secretary Manuel \u201cMar\u201d Roxas II\u2019s running mate in next year\u2019s national elections.<\/p>\n<p>Roxas is the presidential candidate of the ruling Liberal Party (LP) to which Aquino is a member. He will be endorsed by the President on Friday as his preferred successor.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy flomax online <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmeticdermcenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/flomax.html\">https:\/\/cosmeticdermcenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/flomax.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty clear that Secretary Mar wants to run for the presidency, so the talks that we\u2019ve had were perhaps to be part of that, if I decide to join the team.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy tadalista online <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmeticdermcenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/tadalista.html\">https:\/\/cosmeticdermcenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/tadalista.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> It will probably be as his vice president,\u201d she said, clarifying that she only assumed what Aquino might have been trying to tell her.<\/p>\n<p>Poe was joined by Roxas and Senator Francis \u201cChiz\u201d Escudero in their meetings with Aquino, together with several top government officials.<\/p>\n<p>Although Roxas has always been the presumptive standard-bearer of LP, speculations arose that Aquino may anoint Poe instead.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy propecia online <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmeticdermcenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/propecia.html\">https:\/\/cosmeticdermcenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/propecia.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> This was because Poe topped the latest presidential preferences surveys while Roxas ranked low.<\/p>\n<p>Budget Secretary Butch Abad, who was present in Aquino and Poe\u2019s last meeting, explained that the President would not directly ask the senator to run for vice president so as not to be offending or insulting towards her who may want to seek the country\u2019s highest post.<\/p>\n<p>Poe, for her part, still has not decided if she will be joining the coming presidential race, with Escudero as her running mate.<\/p>\n<p>Poe\u2019s former political strategist Senator Serge Osme\u00f1a III earlier advised her to run for vice president first in 2016 then for president in 2022 as he believed that the neophyte senator needed more experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>High regards for women <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Poe commended Aquino for having high regards for women as she noticed how the President thanked numerous women leaders in his sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA).<\/p>\n<p>Among those whom Aquino praised were Ombudsman Conchita-Carpio Morales, Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno, former COA Chairperson Grace Pulido-Tan, BIR Commissioner Kim Henares and Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of the important and key positions in his government who come out with tough decisions are women\u2026 So, I am grateful to the President for seeing the potential and courage of a woman,\u201d Poe said in a separate interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 In an interview with ANC News, Senator Grace Poe had finally disclosed some details from her three long &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":57549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95,483],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-57546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","category-politics","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57546","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283446,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57546\/revisions\/283446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}