{"id":62759,"date":"2015-10-12T21:06:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T13:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=62759"},"modified":"2015-10-12T21:40:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T02:40:22","slug":"amid-corruption-charges-binay-honasan-tandem-first-to-file-coc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/12\/amid-corruption-charges-binay-honasan-tandem-first-to-file-coc\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid corruption charges, Binay-Honasan tandem first to file COC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_62760\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62760\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12079582_1089397684418395_3470954617776561660_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62760\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12079582_1089397684418395_3470954617776561660_n.jpg\" alt=\"UNA standard-bearer Vice President Jojo Binay and his running-mate Senator Gringo Honasan filed their COC on the first day of the five-day registration for candidates in the May 2016 polls. (Photo from Binay's official Facebook page)\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12079582_1089397684418395_3470954617776561660_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12079582_1089397684418395_3470954617776561660_n-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UNA standard-bearer Vice President Jojo Binay and his running-mate Senator Gringo Honasan filed their COC on the first day of the five-day registration for candidates in the May 2016 polls.<br \/>(Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JCBinay\" target=\"_blank\">Binay&#8217;s official Facebook page<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Despite both facing corruption allegations hurled against them, Presidential aspirant Vice President Jejomar \u201cJojo\u201d Binay and his running-mate Senator Gregorio \u201cGringo\u201d Honasan were the first to file their certificates of candidacy (COC) at the central office of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>After attending a mass in San Agustin Church, Honasan disclosed that he trusted the country\u2019s judicial system and that he would answer to the plunder and graft charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUp to this point, I trust with the fairness in the judicial system until proven otherwise\u2026 Ang huhusga sa proseso natin at sa darating na halalan ay ang taumbayan (<em>The Filipino people will be the ones to judge our process in the coming elections<\/em>),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Binay, for his part, claimed that the accusations thrown at him were all part of a black propaganda for next year\u2019s national elections. He also expressed confidence over his political party United Nationalist Alliance\u2019s (UNA) choice of Honasan to be their vice-presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>UNA na, BinGo pa<\/em>,\u201d the Vice President said. \u201c<em>Dalawampu\u2019t limang taon ako naglingkod sa pamahalaan at ang isang tinuunan ko ay ang iangat sa kahirapan ang buhay ng bawat Pilipino<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(We\u2019re not only UNA (First), we\u2019re also a BinGo\u2026 I served in the government for 25 years and one of my focuses was to help every Filipino\u2019s lives rise from poverty.)<\/p>\n<p>It took only a couple of days for UNA to form the Binay-Honasan tandem, after months of searching and several rejections from politicians previously offered to run for vice president under the political party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Despite both facing corruption allegations hurled against them, Presidential aspirant Vice President Jejomar \u201cJojo\u201d Binay and his running-mate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":62760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95,483],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-62759","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\/62759","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=62759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}