{"id":63677,"date":"2015-10-27T02:50:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T07:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=63677"},"modified":"2015-10-27T02:50:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T07:50:10","slug":"miriam-says-shes-ready-to-be-the-next-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/27\/miriam-says-shes-ready-to-be-the-next-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Miriam says she&#8217;s ready to be the next president"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_63678\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63678\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/miriam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63678\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/miriam.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo from Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago's Facebook page)\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/miriam.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/miriam-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senmiriam\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago&#8217;s Facebook page<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Manila\u2014Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago last night asserted her dedication to be the next president of the Philippines despite concerns about the state of her health.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Defensor-Santiago, in a meet and greet with students at the U.P. Bahay ng Alumni in Quezon City, clarified that she has won her battle against cancer and is ready to win the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tell you today, I have passed all the physical hardships known to man,\u201d said Santiago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you want a clean government? Do you want a courageous government? If that is the case, do you want me (as your next president)?\u201d Sen. Santiago asked the cheerful crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Santiago spoke of corruption and the fight against it, citing the Senate as example of how easy it is to steal from the government.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago gave photo opportunities to students and supporters who wore red in support of the senator.<\/p>\n<p>Among the supporters present in the event is Cecile Ongpauco, mother of Heart Evangelista. Evangelista is a close friend of the senator. She is also married to Sen. Chiz Escudero who is running as vice-president in next year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator Miriam and I are the closest of friends. She\u2019s like my mentor, my hero. We\u2019ve been close for many years,\u201d said Ongpauco to GMA News Online.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Ople, senatorial bet of the Nacionalista party and guest candidate in senatorial slate of the United Nationalist Alliance of Vice President Jejomar Binay also attended the event.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the event, Ople was repeteadly addressed as \u201ca next senator\u201d. Ople\u2019s inclusion in Santiago\u2019s senatorial slate has not been officially announced by the Senator\u2019s camp. Vice Mayor Isko Moreno is the first and only senatorial candidate who has been officially included in Santiago\u2019s slate.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ferdinand \u201cBongbong\u201d Marcos, Jr., running-mate of Sen. Santiago was not present in the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manila\u2014Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago last night asserted her dedication to be the next president of the Philippines despite concerns about the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":63678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95,483],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-63677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","category-politics","tag-rewrite","mauthors-katherine-padilla","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63677","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=63677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}