{"id":61587,"date":"2015-09-18T23:11:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T15:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=61587"},"modified":"2015-09-18T23:22:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T15:22:57","slug":"aquino-on-poe-what-will-you-do-to-outdo-what-we-already-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/18\/aquino-on-poe-what-will-you-do-to-outdo-what-we-already-did\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquino on Poe: What will you do to outdo what we already did?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III answers questions directed to him during the Press Conference at the Heroes Hall of the Malaca\u00f1ang Palace on Thursday,\u00a0September 17, 2015.
(Photo from the Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau\/Lauro Montellano, Jr.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013 With Senator Grace Poe declining the ruling Liberal Party\u2019s offer to be their vice presidential bid and opting instead to join the presidential race in next year\u2019s national elections, President Benigno \u201cNoynoy\u201d Aquino III still thanked the neophyte senator for acknowledging his \u201cdaang matuwid<\/em>\u201d (straight path) type of governance and challenged her to outdo the reforms he started.<\/p>\n

Aquino also welcomed Poe\u2019s constructive criticism towards his administration and questions on his policies as he was well aware of how politics worked in the Philippines.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I need to be criticized, why not? Just put it in the right place and context and base it on truth,\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s be practical. When it comes to elections, marketing has what it calls brand differentiation. How could you say \u2018we are better\u2019 if you will not say this administration lacks this, that and there,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the President thanked the senator for informing him of her political plans before officially announcing her presidential candidacy.<\/p>\n

He then noted that voters were free to choose between former Interior Secretary Manuel \u201cMar\u201d Roxas II\u2019s \u201cdaang matuwid<\/em>\u201d or Poe\u2019s \u201cgobyernong may puso<\/em>\u201d (government with heart).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is more important is we do not slide back to where we started. Let us not make my five years [as president] as a mere intermission then go back to the ugly truth. If they (Poe and Senator Francis Escudero) can make better of what we did, why should we be mad? Maybe the next question is: What are the things you will do to outdo what we are doing,\u201d Aquino said.<\/p>\n

Poe, in her privilege speech, prioritized the education, agriculture and infrastructure sectors in her platform as she believed that there was a dire need to address the public schools\u2019 lack of classrooms and facilities; the farming and livestock propagation; and the restructuring of the numerous roads, trains and airports in the country.<\/p>\n

The senator will be releasing her presidential campaign\u2019s comprehensive program in the coming days.<\/p>\n

Lito David, a former senatorial candidate who deemed Poe as ineligible for an elective post, slammed the senator\u2019s declaration of her presidential bid as her disqualification case before the Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET) remained pending.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is not a great leader\u2026 She lacks respect for the process as defined by law and disrespects her own peers in the Senate that compose a majority of the SET by pre-empting whatever decision they would make on her case,\u201d David said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA \u2013 With Senator Grace Poe declining the ruling Liberal Party\u2019s offer to be their vice presidential bid and opting …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":61588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95,483],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-61587","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\/61587","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=61587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}