{"id":58820,"date":"2015-08-12T15:15:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T07:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=58820"},"modified":"2025-01-12T02:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T07:42:31","slug":"npc-members-express-support-for-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/12\/npc-members-express-support-for-poe\/","title":{"rendered":"NPC members express support for Poe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_58822\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58822\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/10250192_923756300988918_4554841002340589421_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58822\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/10250192_923756300988918_4554841002340589421_n.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Grace Poe  (Photo from Poe's official Facebook page)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/10250192_923756300988918_4554841002340589421_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/10250192_923756300988918_4554841002340589421_n-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58822\" 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 Senator Grace Poe admitted receiving support from several Nationalist People\u2019s Coalition (NPC) members during a Tuesday evening meeting with the political group.<\/p>\n<p>While not having presidential and vice presidential bids for next year\u2019s national elections, the NPC may consider adopting or supporting an independent candidate or a candidate from a different group.<\/p>\n<p>Poe, who was an independent, was grateful for the encouragement she got from some NPC members but clarified that she was not backed by the political party as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s more their individual capacities, like a lot of members of the NPC that I\u2019ve known have been very encouraging,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think a lot of them were very encouraging and supportive\u2026 Just ask them because it\u2019s hard to say who is committing,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy diflucan online <a href=\"https:\/\/newnormalsamecancer.org\/where-to-go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/diflucan.html\">newnormalsamecancer.org\/where-to-go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/diflucan.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Poe also clarified that the meeting did not include official talks and offers regarding the coming general elections. She stressed that it was more like a social gathering, while touching some issues the Philippines\u2019 has been facing and possible solutions to these problems.<\/p>\n<p>Asked for more details from the meeting, the neophyte senator opted to stay mum as respect to the party.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Poe, Senator Francis \u201cChiz\u201d Escudero was also present at the evening meeting with the NPC. Escudero also saw the support several party members were willing to give should Poe join the presidential race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe they want to get to know Senator Poe personally to help them in the party\u2019s decision, because the NPC itself has no official decision who to support in 2016,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy augmentin online <a href=\"https:\/\/newnormalsamecancer.org\/where-to-go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/augmentin.html\">newnormalsamecancer.org\/where-to-go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/augmentin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Asked if the political party was rooting for a Poe-Escudero tandem, NPC member Senator Vicente Sotto III disclosed that they were still \u2018trying to get the pulse of the party.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy rybelsus online <a href=\"https:\/\/newnormalsamecancer.org\/where-to-go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/rybelsus.html\">newnormalsamecancer.org\/where-to-go\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/rybelsus.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Poe, for her part, has not yet officially expressed interest in seeking a higher post.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier that day, several NPC members also met with Interior Secretary Manuel \u201cMar\u201d Roxas II, who was President Benigno \u201cNoynoy\u201d Aquino III\u2019s preferred successor and the ruling Liberal Party\u2019s (LP) standard-bearer for the coming presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>NPC was the second largest party, following the LP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Senator Grace Poe admitted receiving support from several Nationalist People\u2019s Coalition (NPC) members during a Tuesday evening meeting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":58822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95,483],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-58820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/58820","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=58820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282677,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58820\/revisions\/282677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}